I will NEVER forget that New Years Day. We were watching the news reports of his passing when an Army officer and Chaplin knocked on our door and told my parents that my sister had been murdered on the Army base in Wiesbaden West Germany.
Sixteen weeks later my father was killed by a drunk driver.
Then the Reds lost to the Mets in the playoffs.
1973 sucked for me.
Sorry to read about the murder. Was the killer caught , convicted? I see you were so young when you lost family.