On October 1, 1973, Elva F. Harper, a 64-year-old night manager at Fisher’s Motel in Falmouth, was shot and killed during a robbery at the motel. The motel killings were part of a larger spree that began that day in Lexington, where three members of the Barnes family were found shot to death.

Two escaped federal prisoners, Wilmer Elvis Scott, 35, and William Sloan, 24, were identified as the perpetrators. At Fisher’s Motel the pair also fatally shot David Sizemore and Monroe Sizemore; two other people at the motel were shot and survived. Authorities later apprehended the suspects; Scott died by suicide in his jail cell before trial, while Sloan was convicted and given life without parole.

Are there readers who remember the Falmouth or Lexington scenes from that day or have any information about the victims or survivors that could add to the record?