Slaughter on North Lasalle (30 page)

Louise Cole, secretary at B&B Microfilming Service Company, couldn’t believe what had happened to her bosses.

Crime scene diagram of 1318 North LaSalle Street.
ROBERT L. SNOW

Autopsy drawings of the throat wounds. Barker’s throat wound in particular shows that, even though bound, he likely struggled with his assailant.

ROBERT L. SNOW

Autopsy drawings of the head wounds. The diagrams support the belief that the victims were surprised and attacked from the rear.

ROBERT L. SNOW

Carroll Horton, ex-husband to one of the victims’ girlfriends, became a key suspect when the case was reopened in the mid-1990s.

GARY MOORE
/ THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR

Floyd Chastain claimed to have been at the crime scene, and implicated Carroll Horton in the murders.

GARY MOORE/
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR

Carol Schultz, investigative reporter for a local newspaper, resurrected the North LaSalle Street case in the mid-1990s.

GARY MOORE/
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR

Joseph McAtee headed up the police investigation of the murders in 1971 as a Detective Lieutenant, and reopened the case in the 1990s when he was sheriff of Marion County.

Detective Sergeant Roy West solved the North LaSalle Street murders thirty years after they were discovered.

THE INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT

Detective Sergeant Roy West at the New York City Morgue after the 9/11 tragedy.
COURTESY OF ROY WEST