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John Victor Philbrook, 73, a retired police lieutenant, and his wife Virginia June Philbrook, 72, were found shot to death inside their Sleepy Hollow Road home in Campbell County, Virginia. Deputies conducting a welfare check after neighbors reported not hearing from the couple discovered the bodies on February 15, 2013; the last known contact with them was about February 12, 2013. John was shot once and Virginia three times. Investigators reported no initial signs of a struggle at the scene.

Attention quickly turned to the couple’s 27-year-old grandson, Robert Lee Philbrook, who had been living with them since the previous November. Pawn shop records and an employee’s testimony said Robert sold the grandparents’ jewelry around the time of their deaths and told the employee they had recently died. Robert was arrested on February 20, 2013, and charged with two counts of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. In May 2014 he pleaded guilty and received two life terms.

Did anyone in the community know the Philbrooks or have information about their grandson’s presence in the house before February 12, 2013?