Three people were found dead Monday morning at a home in Wilmer, Alabama, and Mobile County investigators said the victims had been bound, shot and cut in what appeared to be a brutal overnight attack.
The victims were identified by family members as 46-year-old Lisa Gail Fields, 17-year-old Keziah Luker and 12-year-old Thomas Cordelle Jr. Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said Luker was pregnant. He also said an 18-month-old child was inside the home at 7950 Auble Moody Road but was left unharmed.
Burch said the three victims lived at the residence where their bodies were found and that a family member discovered them. Investigators did not have any suspects Monday, and Burch said the killings appeared to have happened sometime overnight before the bodies were found.
The sheriff said all three were found in separate rooms and had their hands bound behind them with zip ties or flex cuffs. He said Fields’ throat was cut and she was stabbed, Luker was shot and Thomas’ throat was cut.
Burch said the home had been gone through and was left in disarray, which is why investigators believed someone may have been looking for something. He also said, “At this point we do not suspect any domestic or family type situation,” narrowing the early field of possibilities even as the motive remained unclear.
For now, the case is centered on a house that was both the family’s home and the scene of their deaths, with a toddler left untouched inside and no suspect in custody. The unanswered question is not whether the killings were violent — investigators have already made that plain — but who entered the home, bound the victims and searched it before leaving them dead.
