On October 17, 1975, Philip Beadles and his wife Cheryl were found murdered in their Daly City home on Nelson Court. The couple had been married six months; the killings were described as a brutal double homicide that shocked the neighborhood.

Investigators recovered an address book with multiple entries that reportedly linked the Beadles to others in the local swinging community, and detectives followed many leads and conducted numerous interviews. Philip and Cheryl’s teenage children, who attended a local school, faced severe bullying afterwards and there are suggestions they may have been abused.

Decades later the motive remains unclear and the case is one of Daly City’s oldest cold cases. Does anyone remember the Beadles, their neighbors, or contacts listed in that address book who could help finally identify what happened?