On April 6, 2016, Charles Douglas Eapmon, 32, and his fiancée Carolyn Ann Tomlinson were found shot execution-style in their downstairs bedroom at a home on Merravay Drive in Elsmere, Kentucky. Four children were in the house at the time; aside from a missing safe the rest of the house was largely undisturbed. Investigators early on believed the killer was someone close to the family who knew the home’s layout and the couple’s routines.

Authorities suspected the motive was connected to a family drug-dealing operation. In November 2019 two relatives, Charles Elmer Eapmon and James Allen Eapmon, were indicted on two counts of murder and a count of tampering with evidence. James Allen Eapmon later pleaded guilty to lesser charges and testified that his uncle killed Doug from resentment over control within the illicit enterprise, and that Tomlinson was killed to silence a witness.

If anyone knew the family, their routines, or had information about the missing safe, please share what you know.