for the johnsons, it was the ideal place to raise their two young daughters, 11-year-old darla and 9-year-old dawn. >> we had two lovely girls. it was perfect, as far as we were concerned. we were always together. you can ask anybody around the community, whenever they saw us, we were together. very rarely we went anywhere individually. >> clayton was an industrial arts teacher at the local high school. janice was a homemaker. the johnsons were a deeply religious family and very active in their church, volunteering much of their free time to church activities. >> we were always out visiting people, doing this and that. my mom was the type of person that didn't like to sit around and do nothing, so we were always busy doing something. >> the morning of february 20th, 1989, was a typical one for the johnson family. after the children left for school, clayton carried some laundry to the basement for his wife. moments later the telephone rang. clayton answered on the basement extension. >> hi. >> it was claire thompson, our next door neighbor. i went up and got my coat and came back in an