Kathy Kendrick was 24 and working as a secretary at the Peel, Eddy, and Gibbons Law Firm in Russellville, Arkansas, when she was shot on the morning of December 28, 1987. A former coworker, Ronald Gene Simmons, entered the law firm and shot Kendrick four times in the head while she sat at her reception desk. She was taken to a hospital and died a few hours later.

Simmons had previously worked with Kendrick at Woodline Motor Freight, where he reportedly made unwanted romantic advances. After she rejected him, the harassment and stalking led Kendrick to complain to management; Simmons later quit his job. Kendrick’s murder marked the beginning of the public phase of a wider crime spree that had already begun over the Christmas holiday and would claim multiple lives, including members of Simmons’s family and other victims.

Anyone who knew Kathy Kendrick, her routines at work, or who may have information about the events around December 28, 1987, is asked to come forward.