MA MA - Karen O'Donoghue, 25, Springfield, 2 July 1969

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[h=1]Karen O’Donoghue[/h]

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O'Donoghue, circa 1969

• Missing Since 07/02/1969
• Missing From Springfield, Massachusetts
• Classification Missing
• Age 25 years old
• Height and Weight 5'8, 125 - 135 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. O'Donoghue has a skin graft scar on her finger and a scar on her abdomen from where skin was removed for the graft.

[h=3]Details of Disappearance[/h] O'Donoghue was last seen in Springfield, Massachusetts on July 2, 1969. She was engaged to be married and may have left her fiance. She vanished without a trace and has never been heard from again. Few details are available in her case.

http://charleyproject.org/case/karen-odonoghue

Circumstances: Karen was engaged to get married. We believe she left her fiance and no one knows where she went. She just disappeared. She has a skin graft on one finger and a scar from the graft on her stomach.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/10038/

 

[rats]

Surprised there was no thread for Karen before!

New NamUs link: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/10038/details

Looks like she was excluded from 10 UIDs.

UP8419 01/16/2001 Isle of Wight VA
UP1522 04/10/1979 Middlesex NJ
UP4790 04/24/1981 Miami OH
UP5556 05/30/1976 Virginia Beach VA
UP8579 01/25/1981 Hanover VA
UP6629 02/03/1991 Frederick VA
UP12683 06/06/2014 Newport News VA
UP6642 08/07/1986 Chesterfield VA
UP6796 11/18/1985 Alleghany VA
UP6150 11/07/1998 Stafford VA

 

[Coffee56]

3625DFMA - Karen O'Donoghue

 

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Denmark says Little also claimed he murdered Air Force Nurse Karen O’Donoghue in 1966 or 1967 and showed him a painting of the victim whose body has never been found. And he painted another woman, who he said was named Sara or Donna and was from Cuba.

Denmark says Little confessed to dumping the bodies of both women in the Everglades and choking a fifth unidentified woman to death at what was then the Homestead Air Force base.

D’Oench asked, “So what was his obsession with the Everglades and why did he kill so many women?”

“That’s one of the questions we were not allowed to ask him, why did he do it,” said Denmark.
Notorious Serial Killer Samuel Little Confessed To Five Murders In South Florida

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Karen...this month marks 51 years since her disappearance.

 

[jgfitzge]

There just isn’t a lot out there on this case. Given the fact that it happened in western Massachusetts which does not get a lot of media coverage I am not surprised that there isn’t a lot of articles or stories on Karen‘s case.

 

[Coffee56]

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Denmark says Little also claimed he murdered Air Force Nurse Karen O’Donoghue in 1966 or 1967 and showed him a painting of the victim whose body has never been found. And he painted another woman, who he said was named Sara or Donna and was from Cuba.

Denmark says Little confessed to dumping the bodies of both women in the Everglades and choking a fifth unidentified woman to death at what was then the Homestead Air Force base.

D’Oench asked, “So what was his obsession with the Everglades and why did he kill so many women?”

“That’s one of the questions we were not allowed to ask him, why did he do it,” said Denmark.
Notorious Serial Killer Samuel Little Confessed To Five Murders In South Florida

I always wonder if Little was telling the true always or if he was used to close cold cases. If he was telling the truth, this is the end of the road for Karen´s case.

 

[DetectiveDipScat]

Did LE look at the fiance?

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Karen O’Donoghue – The Charley Project

 

[Pennysmom2]

Nov 20, 2020 updated story

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article247259544.html

<<In the O’Donoghue case, the investigation was done by counterparts with Miami-Dade’s cold-case squad. Little told investigators that the murder occurred in 1970 or 1971, and he met her near a home or motel for “mentally ill persons” off North Miami Boulevard, according to a final memo on the case. He recalled specific details about her — that she was a nurse, had left home because of alcohol and drug problems, suffered from “gynecological issues” and was “slow” and “depressed.”

Many of those details matched up precisely with O’Donoghue’s life story, according to the memo. Records showed O’Donoghue had been a U.S. Air Force nurse, was discharged because of drug and alcohol problems and had suffered from “severe menstrual irregularities,” the memo said. Little, who has sketched many of his victims, also made a startling drawing of the woman with a pointed nose and a long neck. It looks very similar to a photo of O’Donoghue provided by her family. But what exactly happened to O’Donoghue was unclear, although Little said he killed several women and disposed of their bodies in the Everglades. Her case bore a striking resemblance to that of Mary Brosley, another Little victim whose remains were found in the woods of Northwest Miami-Dade. She too hailed from the same area of Massachusetts and battled alcohol and health woes — detectives theorized that Brosley and O’Donoghue might have traveled to Miami together.

This story was originally published November 19, 2020, 6:00 AM.>>

 

[Richard]

Remembering Air Force Nurse Corps Veteran Karen O'Donoghue this Memorial Day. She has been missing for almost 55 years.

 

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[h=1]Karen ODonoghue[/h]

• 

O'Donoghue, circa 1969

• Missing Since 07/02/1969
• Missing From Springfield, Massachusetts
• Classification Missing
• Age 25 years old
• Height and Weight 5'8, 125 - 135 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. O'Donoghue has a skin graft scar on her finger and a scar on her abdomen from where skin was removed for the graft.

[h=3]Details of Disappearance[/h] O'Donoghue was last seen in Springfield, Massachusetts on July 2, 1969. She was engaged to be married and may have left her fiance. She vanished without a trace and has never been heard from again. Few details are available in her case.

Karen O’Donoghue – The Charley Project

Circumstances: Karen was engaged to get married. We believe she left her fiance and no one knows where she went. She just disappeared. She has a skin graft on one finger and a scar from the graft on her stomach.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/10038/

In a memo written by an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade County, Karen O’Donoghue a white female, whose body has never been found, and Dorothy Gibson, who was strangled outside a downtown Miami hotel, were killed by Samuel Little aka Samuel McDowell, who has confessed to more than 90 killings. Samuel Little told investigators he met Karen O'Donoghue outside of a home for the mentally ill in the early 1970s, referring to her as "Scandinavia Girl" in the process. Little knew certain details about O'Donoghue — including that she had been a nurse and that she had menstrual irregularities. Karen O'Donoghue is a woman who disappeared from Springfield, Massachusetts on July 2, 1969. In 2018, Samuel Little confessed to murdering her in Homestead, Florida in early 1970. Samuel Little murdered Karen O'Donoghue in early 1970 near Homestead Fl, she is now verified as his 1st recorded murder by the cops. Karen O’Donoghue’s disappearance never received any publicity. Karen O'Donoghue was listed as a white female, blonde hair, blue eyes, age 25, 5' 8" tall and 125 lbs, sort of just like Joyce Malecki who was murdered on Nov 11, 1969. Joyce Malecki was a 20 year old white female, she had dyed her hair blonde, she was 5' 7' tall and 112 lbs. Both O'Donoghue and Malecki had long slender necks which excited and drew Samuel Little to the young women. Veteran Miami-Dade Police detective David Denmark said Samuel Little lured his victims by charming women. "He was, in my opinion, a good looking guy," he said. "He was very muscular. He would just woo them over and he had a nice car and he would flash them with money." Serial killer Samuel Little aka Samuel McDowell did not just target black female prostitutes! FBI Exhumed Body of Joyce Malecki DNA Likely Links to Serial Killer Samuel Little, FBI File on Malecki Murder is 4,000 Pages Long

 

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Denmark says Little also claimed he murdered Air Force Nurse Karen O’Donoghue in 1966 or 1967 and showed him a painting of the victim whose body has never been found. And he painted another woman, who he said was named Sara or Donna and was from Cuba.

Denmark says Little confessed to dumping the bodies of both women in the Everglades and choking a fifth unidentified woman to death at what was then the Homestead Air Force base.

D’Oench asked, “So what was his obsession with the Everglades and why did he kill so many women?”

“That’s one of the questions we were not allowed to ask him, why did he do it,” said Denmark.
Notorious Serial Killer Samuel Little Confessed To Five Murders In South Florida

Samuel Little aka Samuel McDowell was in custody at the Baltimore Jail and then the Maryland House of Detention (prison) from March 1967 to fall of 1969. In 1966, Little was arrested by Cleveland police for assault and battery. He had beaten a woman, he was sent to prison.