I'd posted about these sickos on a thread about a (male) UID found near Owensboro, KY. I will try to get those links onto this thread. I didn't realize that they didn't already have one.
I've wondered (for quite a while, actually) whether any of the girls involved are still "missing." Some of the body parts that were found were apparently identified, but I don't know if they were ID'ed as either of the two girls mentioned by name to be suspected (definite) victims of the two. And I don't know if the heroine of their story was ever mentioned by name. She'd been through Hell and back, so I don't blame her for not wanting to be named.
Here's what I posted on the other thread:
I've wondered (for quite a while, actually) whether any of the girls involved are still "missing." Some of the body parts that were found were apparently identified, but I don't know if they were ID'ed as either of the two girls mentioned by name to be suspected (definite) victims of the two. And I don't know if the heroine of their story was ever mentioned by name. She'd been through Hell and back, so I don't blame her for not wanting to be named.
Here's what I posted on the other thread:
I've posted on this this page several times and it looks like I was the last to post here. I don't know how I'd overlooked this (bottom) story or skimmed over and missed it. I saw that two murderers involved a local (to me) case may have killed (and sexually assaulted) this guy, too. I live in central Kentucky, but over 100 miles east of Owensboro.
The local case sounded more like a crazy urban (rural?) legend to me back when I was in high school. I later on found out that it (crazy parts included) was all true.
Two guys (James Clopton and Ray Cable) had kidnapped some girls from around Louisville and kept them chained to trees at the southern edge of my county (Nelson Co, KY). They were near the Rolling Fork, a small river that serves as the Nelson/Larue county line.
They'd killed (at least one of) the girls, dismembered them and dropped their parts around the area. A 15-y/o girl somehow got loose and was able to get a gun and kill Clopton.
One of the dump spots was in Pottinger's Creek at a small concrete slab bridge. It's near the railroad crossing on Dee Head Road, a couple miles south of Gethsemane (monastery). Me and my friends probably crossed that bridge a billion times as bored teenagers who cruised around BFE just to give us something to do. We'd heard enough about the murders to call the bridge area "The Hands."
Girl, 15, escapes from killer rapist & shoots him to death
Weekly World News*
7/3/1990
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*(I know it's the paper that wrote about the Batboy, but the details in this story are all basically correct and it has pics)*
INFAMY: Cable and Clopton terrorized LaRue
The Larue County Herald News (Hodgenville, KY)
12/29/2011
Stefanie Silvey Investigates... Alleged Murders of James Cable
WFIE 14-News (Evansville, IN)
(cannot find date)
While searching through old news archives, Stefanie found that James Cable's name came up during the investigation into an unidentified man found dismembered in rural Daviess County in 1990. Cable was arrested shortly after that for the rape, kidnapping and torture of a 15-year-old Jefferson County girl. She was able to escape after killing Cable's accomplice, Philip Clopton.
Girl: "I woke up and he was asleep, so I got the gun and shot him. "
The victim and police say Clopton bragged about raping and dismembering other victims with Cable, including two of her friends who remain missing to this day.
Girl: "He tied them up and killed them."
Reporter: "Was Ray Cable there with him?
Girl: "Yes, he was. "
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