Francis Benefiel

On a summer night in 1993, a domestic dispute escalated into a double homicide that ended the lives of 66-year-old Francis Benefiel and his 65-year-old wife, Helen. The white male and his wife were at their home in Marion County, Indiana, where their granddaughter, Candice Benefiel, had been staying with her and her former boyfriend's one-year-old child. The ex-boyfriend, Charles E. Barker, had been watching the house for several hours before breaking in.

Once inside, a struggle ensued be ...