The ABC News magazine 20/20 is going to highlight the late November 1971 unsolved murder of Kathy Lynn Gloddy, the 13-year-old girl who was beaten, raped, hit over the head, and run over by a car at least four times and left dead on a logging road.
On the last night of Kathy Lynn's life, the young athlete, poet, and conservationist took her German Shepherd out for a walk and stopped on a variety store for ice cream and a can of potato sticks —those were her favorites. She never came back to her home. Only her dog returned.
After the Gloddys sister spent months testifying in both the state Senate and the N.H. House of Representatives, Gov. John D. Lynch signed the New Hampshire Cold Case unit into law in the Governor and Council's room with the family invited as special guests.
The murder investigation has gone through a number of twists and turns recently, when elderly Florida resident Ernest Dukette went into a police department and said he believed he was with Kathy Lynn when she died but could not remember if he had raped her.
Although Dukette later recanted his statements, saying he was ill and confused from various medications he was taking,
Dukette died in August at Old Town, Fla., and never spoke another public word about Kathy Lynn and what he may have known about her murder
Kathy Gloddys murder devastated her family. Her mother, Lucille, committed suicide 20 years after her death, mentioning in a suicide note that she wanted "to be with Kathy."
"20/20" is anchored by Elizabeth Vargas. David Sloan is executive producer.
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