On September 15, 1987, 13-year-old Joel Jerry JJ Buchanan was one of four members of the Buchanan family murdered at their home near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Naola, Virginia. Joel was shot in the back while attempting to flee, then brought back into the house, shot again and stabbed multiple times.

The report states Douglas Jr. lay in wait and killed his 31-year-old stepmother, Geraldine Patterson Buchanan, when she returned home. Douglas Jr. and his wife, Christianne Marie Buchanan, left the state and were apprehended in New Mexico 17 days later. Court action followed, with Douglas Jr. convicted of capital murder and Christianne convicted as an accessory to first-degree murder.

What details about Joel’s life or the family’s time in Naola might help readers who remember them come forward with information?