On April 23, 1986, a spree of extreme violence in Lexington, Kentucky, left five people dead. Trudy Harrell, 59, was found about 9 p.m. in the parking lot of Berke Plaza Shopping Center. Her body showed multiple injuries: a gunshot wound to the back of the head, numerous stab wounds, and evidence she had been run over by a vehicle.

That night Virginia Kearns was found in an alley with similar injuries. Carlos Kearns, Roger Keene, and Theodore Sweet were discovered in a field off Mount Tabor Road; they had been shot, stabbed, and run over near the Kearns family car, which had been set on fire. Two acquaintances, LaFonda Fay Foster and Tina Marie Powell, arrived at the Kearns home earlier that day seeking money and then left with the victims in the Kearns car.

Foster and Powell were later detained at a hospital after staff noticed bloodstained clothing; police recovered the firearm used in the killings. In February 1987, following a four-week trial, both were convicted on five counts of intentional murder. Did anyone in Lexington have contact with Trudy Harrell or the other victims in the days before April 23, 1986?