On the morning of April 11, 1981, 14-year-old Sheila Sharp returned from a neighbor’s house after a sleepover and stumbled upon the most disturbing and gruesome scene that Keddie, California, had ever witnessed.
As she opened the door, she discovered three lifeless bodies on the living room floor of the infamous Cabin 28.
It was Sheila Sharp’s mother, Sue, her brother John, and his friend Dana, lying in a pool of blood, bound with medical tape and appliance wire.
The three innocent victims had been stabbed, bludgeoned, and strangled to death.
Sheila’s 12-year-old sister, Tina, was missing, while her two younger brothers, Rick and Greg, and their friend, Justin, were left unharmed during the violent ordeal.
They also found that the telephone had been left off the hook, and all the lights had been turned off with the drapes fully closed.
While searching the premises, investigators discovered various weapons, including a table knife, a butcher knife, and a blood-stained hammer.
Additional evidence, such as a second blood-soaked knife, was found in a trash bin behind the Keddie general store.
Three years after the Keddie murders, a part of a skull was found 29 miles away near Camp Eighteen in neighboring Butte County. This discovery led to a thorough examination of the area, which uncovered a jawbone and several other bones.
The discovery of Tina’s remains raised even more questions than ever before.
Forty years after the incident, the quadruple murder in the woods continues to baffle the nation. New significant evidence, painstakingly collected by local authorities, offers hope that the mystery of the Keddie murders may soon be solved.
