Kristin Nicole Longaker, 27, was one of two women found shot on a rural stretch of Pitts Point Road west of Shepherdsville on Memorial Day, May 30, 2022. Neighbors discovered the victims around 8:20 a.m.; Longaker was alive but critically wounded and was taken to University of Louisville Hospital, where she died the next day, May 31. Katelyn Rayman died at the scene.

Authorities said Longaker and Rayman had been in a vehicle with Bradley Joseph Ross and Savannah Rae McClanahan earlier that night. Investigators alleged Ross and McClanahan forced the victims from the car, shot them in the head, and left them by the roadside, then stole Longaker’s cell phone and her silver 2002 Hyundai Elantra (Kentucky plate 579-AMN). The stolen vehicle and the question of why the encounter turned deadly were central to the inquiry.

Both Ross and McClanahan were arrested in early June 2022 and initially charged with homicide and robbery-related offenses. McClanahan later entered an Alford plea to complicity to first-degree robbery and received a 15-year sentence; Ross pleaded guilty to complicity to murder and was sentenced to 60 years. Kristin’s obituary noted she was born August 18, 1994, enjoyed fishing and hunting, played high school basketball, and that organ donation after her death helped save five lives.

Did anyone in the community know the four when they were together that night or have information about where they had been before arriving on Pitts Point Road?