Gary Claude Barnes was a Boeing Military Airplane Co. chemical treatment attendant.

The bodies of Gary Barnes, 36, and Cherie Barnes, 32, were discovered in a bedroom of their rural Butler County home about 11:30 a.m. Friday. They each died of gunshot wounds.

It is believed they were killed about 2 a.m. Friday, July 17, 1987. At 10:56 a.m. Friday the Butler County Sheriff's Office received a call from the Wichita Police Department regarding the double murder. At 11:26 a.m. sheriff's officers arrived at the scene and observed the body of one of the victims through a window. Officers then forcibly entered the residence and found the bodies of both.

His survivors are a son, Glennon; father, Lawrence of Tulsa; mother, Ava Gray of Derby; brother, Larry of Wichita.

Further news relates that his 14-year old stepson admitted to shooting the pair.