On August 17, 1996, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 36-year-old Khamphao Phromratsamy and his 32-year-old ex-wife Manyvanh Boonprasert were killed in a violent home invasion. The couple, who still lived together with their three children, were forced into a bathroom and shot in what is described as execution-style killings. Their 12-year-old daughter was shot in the head and survived; their sons, ages 8 and 4, were unharmed.

Members of the Asian Boyz gang carried out the attack after Outh Rambo Sananikone reportedly gathered the group with the intent to do something crazy. Sophal Saggy Phon, then 16, is identified as the triggerman who shot Phromratsamy and Boonprasert on Sananikone’s orders. Chhon Spikey Pok returned to the house to check on the victims, found the daughter alive, but told the others everyone was dead. The gang fled in the family’s van and abandoned it about a mile away.

Law enforcement arrested Sananikone and four other members. Sananikone entered an Alford plea to two counts of murder by complicity and received a life sentence. Sophol Phon was convicted of murder and sentenced to life, and Chhon Pok and Reuth Short Dog Chhoeung, who were juveniles at the time, were also convicted for roles in the double homicide.

Did anyone in Bowling Green at the time remember unusual activity around Gardenside Way that night or have information about the van that was abandoned a mile from the home?