Jane Ann Morrison transferred to Las Vegas from Fort Smith, Arkansas, where she had worked as a newspaper reporter. The Donrey Media Group owned the Southwest Times Record newspaper in Fort Smith along with the Las Vegas Review Journal. In 1976, she became a night cop chasing stories that required a police response. Three years later, Jane Ann went over to the Nevadan, a portion of the paper that allowed a more in depth reporting style.

Dorothy O’Donnell George was born in 1921 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. After serving as a nurse in World War II in Hawaii, Okinawa and Japan, George returned home. She experienced a particularly bad winter and set out for California, but stopped in Las Vegas, Nevada to visit the family of her traveling companion, a girlfriend from her hometown. George applied for a nursing license, got it three days later, and never returned to Wisconsin.