Maxine “Cobb” Cason was born September 07, 1929. She met her husband, Jack, while hitchhiking in Oklahoma. They were married in 1949 and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada a year later. Cason bought a house and spent twenty years remodeling it while raising their two kids and half a dozen other people’s children.

Stavros Anthony was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended Wayne State University in Michigan. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1980 when he was hired as a police officer. He worked for Las Vegas Metropolitan Police for twenty-nine years, and served seven years on the Board of Regents at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.