In 1993 their first album was released. Ms. Esteen and her boyfriend Thomas Blincoe were working on her second record. The two of them, along with a friend Diana Smith Davis, were found shot to death in Esteen's home in Jefferson Park. All three had been shot in the head, their hands bound behind their backs. The police first believed that the crime was drug related, however the family of Ms. Esteen informed us that the police later ruled out drugs as a possible motive.
Friends also state that the victims had been honest, quiet adults who had never been in trouble.
Ms. Esteen had been raised in this home. After her brother was murdered in an drive-by shooting her parents relocated to Las Vegas. The bodies were discovered when he peered through a bedroom window. Also the house apparently had been ransacked as well, but it was not clear at the time if any items had been stolen. No doors or windows had been forcibly opened.