On New Year’s Eve in 1964, a woman named Shirley Coleman was at home with her five children when she received a knock at her farmhouse door. It was a husband and wife that Shirley had never met. They were clearly shaken up and asked to use her telephone to call the police. The couple described a grisly scene that they had discovered at a rest stop along Route 81, and the crime would haunt Jefferson County, New York for years to come. This is the story of the Egan Murders.

Sources:   

• The Jefferson County Egan Murders, Nightmare on New Year’s Eve 1964. Written by Dave Shampine and Daniel Boyer. 
• The Eagan Triple Murder - Jefferson County NY Wiki (miraheze.org)
• Docudrama on infamous Egan murders to debut | Arts and Life | nny360.com