On the morning of March 16, 2020, the bodies of 49-year-old Jacqueline Taylor and 58-year-old Freddie Mask were found inside a home on County Road 138 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. A concerned neighbor noticed the interior front door open with the glass storm door closed, entered the residence and discovered both victims had been shot to death, then called the Leflore County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators determined the killings occurred in the early morning hours between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m.

Investigation quickly focused on 24-year-old Stephen B. Williams Jr., who was already under investigation in an unrelated shooting two days earlier in Sidon. Williams confessed to Sheriff Ricky Banks and deputies, saying the motive was robbery, and was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. On August 2, 2021, Williams pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Leflore Circuit Judge Ashley Hines to two consecutive life sentences; he also pleaded guilty to aggravated domestic violence in the unrelated case and received a two-year term to run concurrently.

Did anyone in Itta Bena know Jacqueline Taylor or Freddie Mask and have information about their movements the night before March 16, 2020?