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On August 16, 2014, 47-year-old Cainie Johnson Jr., his girlfriend Tina Yvonne Goble, 42, and Goble’s 8-year-old granddaughter Trinity Janae Maynard were found dead after firefighters responded to a house fire just outside Inez, Kentucky. Investigators determined the fire had been set to conceal a crime scene and that all three victims had been shot and stabbed before the blaze.

Authorities say the investigation led to two local residents, Jack D. Smith, 41, and his girlfriend Amanda Bowen, 26. Police allege robbery was the motive; medication and jewelry were reported stolen, and an arrest warrant states knives, stolen items, and Goble’s bloody clothes were removed from the home.

Smith and Bowen were arrested within days and charged in the triple homicide and related offenses. Smith later pleaded guilty and received three consecutive life terms without parole; Bowen was convicted by jury and also sentenced to life without parole. Does anyone have information about the victims’ lives in the Inez area or remembers anything from that August 2014 investigation?