On a summer evening in August 1991 in Laurel County, Kentucky, Rodney Vaughn attended a gathering at a home on White Oak Church Road with ten other adults and five children. An argument between Vaughn and another guest, Robert Foley, escalated into a physical altercation. Later that evening Foley, armed with a .38 Colt snub-nosed revolver he had concealed, shot Vaughn multiple times. Gunshot wounds to Vaughn’s left arm and trunk caused a fatal hemorrhage.

Rodney’s brother, Harry Lynn Vaughn, was also shot and killed that night. Foley, aided by three other men who had been at the gathering, disposed of the brothers’ bodies in Sinking Creek in Laurel County. Foley was arrested and charged with both murders; he claimed he shot Rodney in self-defense and blamed another person for Harry Lynn Vaughn’s death. A jury found Foley guilty, and on September 2, 1993, the Laurel Circuit Court sentenced him to death for the murders.

Did anyone who knew Rodney or the Vaughn family attend that gathering or see what happened on White Oak Church Road that night?