Moyar Flash Pleasant, a 77-year-old White man from Madisonville, Kentucky, died on October 23, 2016. Initial reports varied, but his death was later determined to be a homicide, prompting a long investigation that left the community seeking answers.

For two years the case remained largely unresolved in public. In October 2018 the Madisonville Police Department announced that a Hopkins County grand jury had returned a murder indictment charging 55-year-old Kimberly Cunningham of Greenville, Kentucky, in connection with Pleasant’s death. At the time of the indictment Cunningham was in the Daviess County Detention Center on unrelated charges.