On August 21, 1981, one-year-old Kingston Edward Bell was among six family members killed in a house on the edge of Indianapolis’s inner city. The victims named in reports were Kingston, his siblings Berkina Rochelle, age 2, Bertina Michelle, age 4, and King Edward Bell II, age 6, along with their mother, Bertha Mae Kirby Bell, 26, and grandmother Mary Alice Kirby, 54.

Authorities say the killings were carried out by the children’s father, 31-year-old Vietnam veteran King Edward Bell. After the deaths he reportedly scrawled Jesus please take these kids in chalk above the children’s bed and ran from the house, calling on police to kill him; he was taken into custody. The state sought the death penalty, and Bell later pleaded guilty but mentally ill to six counts of murder and received a 160-year prison term.

If anyone knew Kingston or the family, or has information about the events leading up to that day, please share what you remember.