On the morning of September 12, 2014, 17-year-old Michael Eli Mahoney was shot and killed in his Mayfield, Kentucky home while reportedly trying to protect his mother, Kim Thomas, from her estranged boyfriend, 41-year-old Terry Froman. Neighbors said they heard gunshots around 5 a.m.

After fatally shooting Eli, Froman abducted Thomas. A 911 call from a Paducah gas station and surveillance video showed Thomas naked and bloodied, attempting to flee Froman’s vehicle before being pulled back inside. Authorities used cell phone pings to track Froman as he drove into Ohio, where troopers stopped his SUV on Interstate 75. Officers heard gunshots; Thomas was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds and Froman had a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Froman was charged in both Kentucky and Ohio for the killings and kidnapping; he was convicted for the murders of Michael Eli Mahoney and Kim Thomas and received life without parole in Kentucky and a death sentence in Ohio.