SHREVEPORT, La. — It’s been 40 years since one of Shreveport’s most haunting crimes shocked the Cedar Grove community — and the pain still lingers for the families left behind.

On July 19, 1985, four people were brutally murdered inside a home on Dalzell Street. The victims: 34-year-old Vivian Chaney; her brother, 25-year-old Jerry Culbert; Chaney’s common-law husband, Billy Joe Harris; and her daughter, 15-year-old Carlette Culbert. All were found bound, strangled and stabbed.

Shirley Johnson, Chaney’s sister, discovered the bodies when she arrived from California for a surprise visit.

"When I arrived at my sister’s house, the killings had just stopped," Johnson recalled. "They were still warm."

Her two nieces were found alive at the scene. But decades later, Johnson and her brother A

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