A reward fund exceeding $1,700 was accrued for information leading to the person(s) responsible in the Griffin-Moore and Martin-Booker murders. Rumors circulated throughout the area, with one rumor suggesting a local minister had turned in his own son as a suspect in the Martin-Booker murders. On April 18, Captain Gonzaullas issued a statement to the public during a press conference verifying that the murderer had not been caught and that the rumors circulating among the public and in the newspapers were "a hindrance to the investigation and harmful to innocent persons."