In the early morning hours of October 30, 2024, a house fire on Henon Lane in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, revealed a double homicide. Firefighters found the bodies of 43-year-old Anthony Garrett of Elizabethtown and 41-year-old Blake France of Greenville inside the burning home. Investigators determined both men had been shot to death before the fire was set intentionally.

Witnesses reported a gold pickup truck fleeing the scene. Police traced the vehicle to a local motel and questioned 45-year-old Dustin Caudill. Authorities say Caudill confessed to shooting Garrett and France, setting the house on fire, and stealing the victims’ wallets, which he admitted discarding in a gas station trash can. Investigators recovered some of the victims’ belongings from his motel room and surveillance footage showed him disposing of a handgun.

Records in the case note that Caudill, as a juvenile in 1994, shot and killed his mother and 10-year-old brother, served a lengthy prison term, was released on parole in 2020, had a parole violation in 2023 and was fully discharged from custody in July 2024. He was arrested and charged with two counts of murder, arson, robbery, tampering with physical evidence, wanton endangerment and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, and is being held at the Hardin County Detention Center on $1 million bond.

Did anyone in the Elizabethtown area see a gold pickup truck or have information about activity on Henon Lane that morning?