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Did Kathy Gloddy’s Murderer Confess and Still Walk Free?
A 13-year-old was brutally killed in 1971, but even a 2006 admission of guilt didn’t see the cold case closed.
Kathy Gloddy was just 13 when she went to take her dog for a walk and never came home again. Her murder would shock the tiny New Hampshire community in which she lived and forever change the way local parents felt about their childrens’ safety.
But more than 50 years on, no one has ever been punished for this most brutal of crimes, despite a man eventually walking into a police station and saying he did it. Given the wealth of forensic technology available today, just why is justice so evasive for the remaining family members of the teenage Kathy Gloddy?
Gone in broad daylight
Kathy was a happy child and something of a tomboy who liked to play basketball, baseball and pool in her home town of Franklin, New Hampshire.
On Sunday November 21st 1971, she took her beloved German Shepherd dog Tasha out for a walk that would take her via the convenience store and the local high school fields, where she was spotted through the window by friends who were taking part in a banquet event.
