On February 14, 2022, landlord entry into a South Morris Street apartment in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, produced a double homicide scene: 54-year-old Kevin Lamar Williford and 47-year-old Judy Butler Hunter were found fatally shot in the head. The Greene County coroner quickly ruled both deaths homicides. The two had been living in the apartment for about three months; the landlord had not heard from them for several days before finding their bodies.

Waynesburg police arrested two people known to the victims, Cortland Rogers and his girlfriend Shawna Smith, and charged them in connection with the killings. Investigators say the motive involved a dispute over missing jewelry and drug money. Police reports quote Rogers as telling Smith, We can’t leave any witnesses, and during interviews the couple blamed each other for pulling the trigger.

Cortland Rogers later pleaded guilty and is serving life in prison; he also received 15 to 60 years for related kidnapping, aggravated assault and conspiracy counts tied to a separate incident on the same day the bodies were discovered. Prosecutors announced plans in April 2025 to drop the homicide charge against Smith in Williford’s death while seeking a criminal solicitation to commit homicide charge in Hunter’s death based on Rogers’s plea hearing testimony; Smith’s trial is scheduled for September 2025. Anyone who knew Kevin Williford or has information about what happened that February is asked to come forward.