On a spring morning in April 1979, 24-year-old Steven Timothy Judy encountered 23-year-old Terry Lee Chasteen and her three young children after their car stopped on the roadside. After offering help, Judy deliberately disabled the vehicle and then drove the family to a secluded spot near White Lick Creek. There he raped and strangled Chasteen; when her children — Misty Ann, five; Steve, four; and Mark, two — began crying, he drowned each child in the creek. The four bodies were found later that day, and witness accounts led to Judy’s arrest. He confessed to the killings.

At trial, Judy’s lawyers pleaded insanity and described a violent, abusive childhood, but court-appointed psychiatrists found him legally sane, diagnosing antisocial personality disorder. A jury convicted him of four counts of murder on February 2, 1980. Judy waived his appeals, threatened the judge and jury during sentencing and argued for his own execution. He was executed by electrocution on March 9, 1981. No remorse was reported; public reaction was mixed, with some protesting and others expressing relief.

If anyone knew Terry Chasteen or her children, or has information about that stretch of White Lick Creek in April 1979, please come forward.