The Victims and Survivors of the Hi-Fi Murders

Stanley Orren Walker worked at the Hi-Fi Shop and was on duty when the robbery began. He was the son of Orren Walker, who survived. Pierre shot and killed him in the basement.

Sherry Michelle Ansley had been hired at the shop only a week before the murders. She was recently engaged and planned to marry on August 5, 1974. Pierre raped and then killed her. Orren Walker testified that her last words were “I am too young to die.”

Carol Elaine Naisbitt came to the shop looking for her teenage son Cortney, who was late getting home. She was taken hostage and shot. She died after reaching St. Benedict’s Hospital, now Ogden Regional Medical Center.

Byron Cortney Naisbitt was a student at Ogden High School. Shot in the head, he survived but had severe brain damage and was hospitalized for 266 days. He returned to school and graduated with his class in 1976, but the brain injury forced him out of college and he could not hold a steady job. He married Catherine Hunter in 1985 and lived with chronic pain until his death in 2002 at age 44. His story is the center of Gary Kinder’s book Victim.

Orren William Walker came to the shop looking for his son Stanley. He survived being forced to drink Drano, shot at and grazed, nearly strangled, and stabbed in the ear with a ballpoint pen. He gave the description that helped identify Dale Pierre and was the prosecution’s star witness. He died in 2000 at age 69.