Episode 78 Carol Sue Klaber Parts 1 and 2

Carol Sue Klaber and her killer

In June 1976, 16 year old Carol Sue Klaber was found in a ditch, half nude and bludgeoned to death.  She had last been seen by multiple witnesses getting into a distinctive sedan driven by a tall, slender, blond young man.  But no one knew who he was. Multiple leads and suspects failed to pan out.  Then two years later a horrific rape happened in Park Hills that almost exactly mirrored Carol’s case, down to the description of the suspect. Unfortunately, police didn’t know who this rapist was, either.  Both cases went unsolved for more than 40 years. When cold case investigators reopened the Carol Klaber case, they ended up solving both: one using forensic genealogy, and the other, using old fashioned methods.