On June 23, 2015, Robert Faries, 79, and his wife Peggy Faries, 77, were found dead in their home on Highway 469 North in Pearl, Mississippi. A family friend discovered Peggy through a back window, lying in a pool of blood; a family member then entered and found Robert in a bedroom. The victims had been married 57 years and were known locally as the former owners of Faries Printers of Richland.

Investigators from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations identified the couple’s 22-year-old grandson, Zachary Alexander Stanford of Ocean Springs, as a person of interest. Magee police stopped Stanford for a traffic violation and observed blood on his clothing and inside his vehicle; deputies later took him into custody. Authorities say a search of the vehicle turned up bloody clothing, a knife, and a .22 caliber firearm with a homemade suppressor, and that Stanford confessed to the killings. He was charged with two counts of murder.

Does anyone in the Pearl or Richland area remember the Faries family or have information that could shed more light on what happened to them?