Grace A. Nusser was born in approximately 1898. She married George F. Nusser in Santa Ana, California on August 20, 1923, who worked for the Bureau of Power and Light in Los Angeles, California. They later moved to Boulder City, Nevada on June 1, 1936. Grace A. Nusser killed George F. Nusser on April 27, 1937, and was sentenced to life in Nevada State Prison for first degree murder. She served approximately a year and a half in prison before being transferred to the Nevada State Hospital in Reno, Nevada in approximately 1939. She died June 9, 1952.
Paul Christensen was born on August 26, 1932. He grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada during the World War II era. His parents were M.J. and Hazel Christensen, founders of a jewelry business. He attended the Fifth Street Grammar School, the John S. Park School, and Las Vegas High School. Too young to enlist, he was of an age that could focus on his education and opportunities for success. He attended college, earned a marketing degree, and joined the Air Force ROTC program. He flew B-47 bombers during the Cold War.
Adelaide Robbins was born in Manhattan (New York, New York) to a father who was a pianist and arranger and a mother who was a dancer on Broadway. She grew up as an only child in the theater district where she was exposed to the arts from a young age. She began piano lessons at age six and began working professionally by the age of 12. She attended the High School of Music and Art for four years.
David R. Wasserman was born on December 3, 1944 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1966 he graduated from Rutgers University with his bachelors in Zoology. In 1970 he received his Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. Upon graduation he served two years of active duty as a captain in the United States Air Force Dental Corps at Nellis Air Force Base.