In the summer of 1986 the ranching community of Arapahoe, Colorado, was devastated when 34-year-old Virginia Louise Ginny MacLennan May was abducted from her family home and later found dead. A neighbor, Becky Fincham, had contacted Ginny about children’s clothes and, learning Ginny’s husband was not home, arrived with her husband Gary Lee Davis; the couple then abducted Ginny, leaving her two toddlers behind.

After two days of searching Ginny’s body was located in a secluded area. The investigation found she had been sexually assaulted, beaten with a rifle, shot fourteen times, and concealed under a bale of hay. Both Fincham and Davis were arrested and charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder. A year after the crime Davis was convicted of kidnapping and first-degree murder and a jury sentenced him to death.