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Billy Joe Harris, a 29-year-old Black man, was found murdered in Shreveport, Louisiana, on the morning of July 19, 1985, inside the Cedar Grove home he shared with Vivian Chaney. When a relative arrived early to surprise the family, the house didn’t answer back—only the sound of a stereo playing somewhere inside. She walked around to the rear, found the back door giving way, and stepped into a silence that turned monstrous as she discovered two young girls alive but shaken, and then the bodi ...Read More
Victim Details

Billy Joe Harris

Male

Black / African American

Shreveport

LA

1985-07-19

28

Billy

Joe Harris

03/04/2026