Barbara Ann Barnett was born July 24, 1936 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Ralph Eugene Goodman and Katherine Cynthia Pendergrass. Barnett moved to Nevada in 1959. When she first moved to Nevada she worked as an accountant for a small business. Afterwards she became a licensed practical nurse and worked at Rose de Lima Hospital in the psychiatric unit. Barnett came to Nevada with her husband William Barnett the two divorced in 1961. Barnett gave birth to her sone in September of 1963.

Helen M. Baucum was born November 03, 1920 in Batesville, Arkansas. Baucum lived in Arkansas until she was seventeen. Baucum was twice married in Nevada and once divorced in Nevada.