As charges continue to mount against Brian Epperson, one woman is fighting to ensure her best friend's case doesn't fall through the cracks.

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Brian Epperson, the so-called Kentucky serial killer, has been indicted on charges connected to the overdose deaths of two Kentucky women. But there is a third name that keeps being mentioned, a third case waiting for justice. Her name is Hilory Davis, and she was the first woman to die.

April Stamper remembers the exact day she met Hilory Davis: April 20, 2023, at the Hope Center, a rehabilitation facility for women in Lexington, Kentucky. It was April's first day there, and she was scared. She said Hilory was one of the first people to greet her.

"I thought she was really pretty and she was very kind and very helpful and very friendly," April recalled. "That meant a lot for somebody coming in who was kind of scared."

The two women became fast friends, bonding over their shared journey toward recovery. They stayed close after leaving the facility, and Hilory thrived, April told me, nearly three years clean, working as a waitress, beloved by customers and coworkers alike.

"She was very outgoing," April said. "Everybody loved her."

But in November 2024, Hilory was found dead in her Lexington hotel room. Investigators ruled it a methamphetamine overdose. To April, nothing about that made sense.