On the evening of November 25th, 1996, the bodies of 49-year-old Richard Wendorf and 54-year-old

Neyama Ruth Queen were found inside of their Eustace, Florida home, the married couple,

who lived in a rural home about 35 miles northwest of Orlando, was discovered by their teenage

daughter late that Monday, just three days before Thanksgiving. The middle-aged couple had been killed

in separate rooms, by an unknown attacker that had not spared any sympathy for either. Richard,

a manager for Crown Quark and Seal, was found in the living room couch. It was believed that he had

been sleeping at the time of his murder, but had been hit in the head and torso repeatedly with a

blunt object, bringing his life to a quick and sudden end. Similarly, his wife, Neyama Ruth Queen,

who more commonly went by her middle name, Ruth, who regularly volunteered at local schools,

was found in an adjacent room, the victim of a similar assault. The killer had bludgeoned her to

death with the same blunt object, and an autopsy would later note that she had been hit in the back

of the head so hard that it had severed her brainstem, killing her instantly. However, as was the

case with her husband, the killer had not stopped there, both of the victims were hit far beyond

what was necessary, resulting in a chaotic and bloody crime scene that was described by several

investigators as the worst they had ever seen. Jennifer, the couple's 17-year-old daughter,

would return home from her job at a public grocery store at around 1030 that evening, and did not

notice anything amiss as she walked in through the garage to the family's house, and then into a

back bedroom. She didn't notice her father's lifeless body on the couch, nor the bloody mess left

behind around her mother's corpse in the kitchen until a minute or so later. She would then

call 911, alerting police and paramedics to the crime scene. The discovery of these bodies in

this small town in central Florida would send shockwaves throughout the region. Not only was this one

of the most brutal home invasions that police in the area had ever seen, but investigators had no

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