On the evening of March 11, 1984, 29-year-old Kenneth Cantrell was killed at his home in Hartselle, Alabama, where he and his wife, Nell, ran a jewelry business. A man identified as Anthony Keith Johnson phoned under the pretense of buying jewelry; Cantrell, uneasy, armed himself with a .38 caliber pistol and told his wife to hide his wallet. Johnson and an accomplice arrived and, when Cantrell answered the door, a violent struggle followed.

Cantrell was shot six times in the chest; those wounds pierced his lungs and major arteries and proved rapidly fatal. Cantrell fired his weapon during the attack and wounded Johnson. Johnson sought medical treatment the next day for a back gunshot wound and was indicted by a Morgan County grand jury in June 1984 for intentional murder during a robbery, later tried and found guilty.

Did anyone in Hartselle at the time remember unusual callers or a car seen near the Cantrell home that night?