On March 7, 1983, Laurel Wilson, 32, and her nine-year-old daughter, Erika Payne, were found shot to death in their beds at their South Salem home on Brookwood Street S. Both victims were Caucasian; the scene was described as a double homicide with no immediate explanation given for the violence.

Investigators recovered Laurel Wilson’s 1983 Dodge Colt after it had been abandoned in a nearby department store parking lot; the vehicle was processed for fingerprints and fibers. In the weeks before the killings, Laurel reportedly complained to her ex-husband and to police about being harassed by an acquaintance who allegedly left notes at her home and on her car and vandalized her mailbox. That person was questioned but ultimately not named as a suspect in the murders.

No arrests have ever been made and no suspects have been officially identified. Does anyone have information about Laurel, Erika, their neighborhood on Brookwood Street S, or the abandoned Dodge Colt that could help move this case forward?