In the fall of 1989 four people were killed in a rural cabin in the Bald Rock community of Laurel County, Kentucky. On October 8, 36-year-old Jerry McMillen was shot and killed along with Kimberly Bowersock, 21, Lillian Contino, 28, and Calvin Reynolds, 23. The victims were last seen alive at the cabin, which was owned by David Gross.

The bodies were not found until 1991, when authorities recovered the four remains from a septic tank on a neighboring property; the bodies had been covered with lime and cement. Witnesses at the cabin later testified that Robert Carl Foley arrived aggressively, grabbed Kimberly Bowersock by the hair, and then shot Calvin Reynolds when he intervened before shooting the other three victims. Foley was arrested, tried in 1994, convicted for the quadruple homicide and sentenced to death; he maintained he was framed.