David Kandelaki, 31, was found shot to death alongside 30-year-old Joshua Rice on January 18, 2018, in an apartment near Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky. The discovery followed a missing-persons report filed by Kandelaki’s wife after he failed to make a flight from Cincinnati to join her and their children in Miami. Kandelaki had dropped off the family car and dog at a friend’s house in Jeffersontown before his route ended at the Abigail Drive apartment where both men were later located.

Authorities arrested 23-year-old Aaron Hernandez in Fayette County, Texas, and charged him with two counts of murder and tampering with physical evidence. Prosecutors said motive stemmed from a prior romantic relationship between Hernandez and Rice and noted Rice had sought a protective order against Hernandez days before the killings. The trial featured evidence including internet searches and post‑crime actions attributed to Hernandez, but a jury acquitted him in 2022. The deaths of David Kandelaki and Joshua Rice therefore remain officially unresolved.

Did anyone in the Louisville area know Kandelaki or Rice and have information about their movements in January 2018?