On the evening of December 7, 1992, 19-year-old David Phillips and his 26-year-old brother Robert Bobby Phillips were found murdered in their Tulsa home while their parents were out shopping. David, described as mentally handicapped, was shot in the head and believed to have been killed shortly after waking. Bobby was bludgeoned with the blunt end of an axe; his body was later moved to a small bathroom.

Scene evidence suggested the killers lingered in the house for hours, watching television and drinking soft drinks, then tried to burn the home by turning on the gas and lighting candles. The family car was missing from the garage and recovered the next morning in a local high school parking lot.

Investigators later explored the possibility of mistaken identity, linking the killings to the 1991 murder of Coy and Tonya Wilkerson and an alleged motive to silence the Wilkersons’ parents, Jill and Jim Phillips, who had been pursuing a man named Jackie Wright for their daughter’s murder. No one has been charged in the deaths of David and Bobby Phillips; authorities have long suspected a connection to Jackie Wright’s case but the brothers’ family remains without definitive legal closure.

Did anyone in Tulsa at the time recognize unusual activity near the Phillips home that night or see the car later that morning?