Althea Lyons, 26, was found shot to death in her apartment at the Christiana Court complex off State Route 4 in Stanton on the morning of December 4, 1981. Police were dispatched about 6:45 a.m. after a caller reported hearing three or four gunshots. Officers discovered Lyons and her new boyfriend, 27-year-old postal letter carrier Tyrone Whittle, both killed by a 12-gauge shotgun.

Also inside the apartment was the body of 36-year-old Willie Andrews, who detectives identified as the gunman; investigators described the scene as a jealous-rage murder-suicide in which Andrews turned the weapon on himself after shooting Lyons and Whittle. Lyons worked as a bus driver for DART and Andrews was employed at the Chrysler assembly plant in Newark. Two young children, Lyons’s six-year-old daughter and three-year-old son, escaped after the first shots and ran to a neighbor; police later learned the older child witnessed the attack.

With Andrews dead at the scene, there were no arrests, and authorities publicly framed the killings as a domestic violence incident driven by jealousy. Who in Stanton at that time might have additional information about Lyons, Whittle, or the children’s accounts?