The Murder of Kristin O’Connell: A Cold Case That Keeps Hitting a Brick Wall
The 20-year-old was killed in a cornfield in 1985, but claims of a cover-up and bureaucracy have beleaguered the investigation — and it still remains unsolved.
When Minnesota native Kristin O’Connell travelled to the small town of Ovid in New York in the summer of 1985, it should have given her the chance to enjoy a final week of freedom before college started up again that fall.
Kristin was off to see a male friend she had met in Florida on Spring Break, and it seemed there was the potential for the long-distance relationship they had since maintained to develop into something more.
But the trip would turn to horror after Kristin was found brutally murdered — and 37 years later, police are apparently still no closer to finding out who did it. What’s more, the investigation has been plagued by mistakes, red tape and even claims of a cover-up by police.
Could tireless campaigning by Kristin’s family and new publicity generated by the true crime community finally see this cold case murder cracked?
