Man Sentenced in 1987 Missouri Cold Case — But He Gets Just 10 Years
Karla Delcour was just 22 when she was killed, and Kirby King will now serve less than half that time in jail for her manslaughter.
A cold case in Missouri dating all the way back to 1987 has been solved by detectives — but to say it has resulted in justice for the victim may be stretching the imagination.
Karla Delcour was 22 and living in the town of St Clair some 45 miles south-west of St Louis in the summer of 1987.
However, she suddenly disappeared that June, with her father realising she was gone when he didn’t receive a Father’s Day card from his usually dutiful daughter.
A search began for the young woman that ended in tragedy just four days later. On June 25th 1987, Karla’s decomposing body was discovered by the side of a service road along Interstate 44.
She had been bound by cords around her wrists and neck that had ultimately strangled her to death, Franklin County Sheriff Steve Pelton told the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Detectives thought Karla had been killed elsewhere approximately four days earlier before being left in the woods — and it didn’t take them too long to come up with a suspect.
