A quiet Hampton, Virginia home was the scene of a double homicide in the early morning hours of September 10, 1998. Two-year-old Nathan Mark Bailey was shot twice as he climbed out of his bed; his mother, 21-year-old Katherine Esther Katie Logan Bailey, was shot three times in the head while sleeping. The killings were carried out by Nathan’s father and Katherine’s husband, Mark Wesley Bailey, a Navy machinist mate.

Investigators say Bailey tried to stage the scene as a home invasion, cutting a bathroom window screen and severing the telephone cord before going to work and reporting an abduction. He later failed a polygraph and confessed, saying he acted after alleging his wife had been unfaithful. Prosecutors presented evidence that he had borrowed the .22-caliber pistol months earlier and had been telling coworkers stories to support a future cover story.

In 1999 a jury convicted Mark Wesley Bailey of capital murder in Nathan’s death and first-degree murder in Katherine’s. He received the death penalty for Nathan’s murder and life for Katherine’s. Does anyone have information about the family, the work environment where Bailey told his stories, or the handgun he borrowed?