James B. Wiseman, known as JB, was 32 when he and his wife Kathy, also 32, were murdered in their Piankatank Shores home in Hartfield, Virginia, on November 10, 1990. Both were killed by close-range shotgun blasts while they slept, a crime that shocked Middlesex County as the first murder there since 1987.

Investigators determined the killings were committed by the couple’s teenage daughter, Jessica Wiseman, then 14, and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Douglas Christopher Thomas. The motive was reported as the parents’ disapproval of their daughter’s relationship. Thomas entered the house through a window Jessica had left open and shot both parents; Kathy, after being wounded, stumbled to her daughter’s room and was shot again. Jessica then ran to a neighbor’s house, claiming someone had shot her parents.

Both teens were arrested; Thomas confessed, was convicted and received a death sentence, and Jessica, under juvenile jurisdiction, was confined until age 21 and released in 1997. Does anyone in the area remember the Wiseman family or have details that could add to the record?