From website titled: Crime Problems - Aspen Hill, Maryland, USA. Note that Websleuths is linked and commented upon.
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The Unsolved Death of Kathy Lynn Beatty
The Police Investigation
"On July 25,1975, 15-year-old Kathy Beatty was found unconscious in a wooded area in the rear of the Kmart department store located at Georgia Avenue and Connecticut Avenue in Aspen Hill, Maryland. The hospital examination revealed that she had been sexually assaulted and hit on the head with a blunt instrument. Kathy never regained consciousness and died on August 8, 1975.(Montgomery County Department of Police "Cold Case" website, downloaded 2008 May 26)". ...
... this case is still unsolved, although the Cold Case website states that two witnesses claim that they saw two white males, mid to late teens, crossing Georgia Avenue carrying a female eastward towards the 7-11 store and continuing onward towards a wooded area used by teenagers as a "party place".
Circumstances
July 25, 1975, was a Friday morning; the night that Kathy was last seen alive was a Thursday. The popular band "Yes" was touring and the concert was a "must-see" for most of the neighborhood's teens and young adults. Many, if not most, of Kathy Beatty's peers attended the concert at the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland. Thus, those who attended and were seen and remembered by fellow attendees had an alibi.
Aftermath
Prior to this event, Aspen Hill had been mostly regarded as an all-American low-crime outer suburb where people left their doors unlocked and didn't worry much if the kids were out most of the night. This death, characterized as a murder by a suspect (or suspects) as yet to be identified and presumably still at large, cast a shadow over the neighborhood, one which seems only to deepen as time goes on. As of November 2010, we are unaware of any significant new leads in the case. As is typical in such investigations, very little information has been released to the public at large.
Cold Case Activity
This investigation is ongoing. Please see the Kathy Beatty Investigation website. Considerable discussion has been ongoing over the years at the "WebSleuths" discussion forum on the Beatty case. While many of these "websleuths" have their own various suggestions about likely suspects -- usually notorious serial killers or serial rapists with similar tastes in victims or similar methods of operations -- the professional investigators seem less than fully convinced. It is widely believed that the professional investigators attribute this to someone either frequenting the community, or actually residing here or very nearby. More discussion has occurred over time among those who lived here at the time....
LINK:
http://www.aspenhillnet.net/mediawi...blems#The_Unsolved_Death_of_Kathy_Lynn_Beatty