Spooky times continued...

Heard of Tommy Lynn Sells? Aka Coast to Coast?
He was in the Mt Vernon IL area in 1987, which is where I was living at the time. In a little town called Ina, which is several miles away. This is what he did....
"Perhaps Sells most heinous crime, and that's saying a lot, was the quadruple murder of the Dardeen family in Ida, Illinois, on November 18, 1987. Befriended by the family and invited for a meal at their mobile home, Sells shot Russell Dardeen in the head in a nearby field and beat his wife and three-year-old son to death with a baseball bat. During the brutal attack Mrs. Dardeen gave birth to a girl, two months premature. Faced with the unique situation Sells simply turned the bat on the newborn and beat her to death also."
I remember that night well. It was very cold, I was with some friends. We were coming home from the store. As we were walking from the car to the house I remember looking up at the moon and thinking somewhere something horrible is happening. I insisted the doors and windows be locked and my friend Susan admitted she was feeling "creeped out" too. The guys tried to laugh it off. Later the murder was in the newspaper and on the TV news.