This case is solvable. Kathy needs US to help find her killer. Is there anything I can do December?
I don't know.. My sleuthing skills are not so great.
I believe that Adcox is the key. I might be wrong about this, but I think he and his rollerdrome bus have some part in all of this. Or maybe he was just an information source.
Somehow, he convinced the police he was not the murder (after they pursued him for eight years). Therefore, he had to have known something. I know the police polygraphed him and others. But, I believe those were old school polygraphs.
What I need to find out:
Kathy's route: what was along it other than the places she as specifically going. Nerosleuth had an excellent idea about the businesses. I looked at the route in street view, but it has changed so much since then... I don't know what was there then except for the Krispy Kreme.
I do have a memory of once being sent to a trophy shop on Nolensville Road and it was very near Thompson Lane. It looked like it'd been there a long time. It's gone now. But, it is possible a trophy shop was one of the things along her route.
The only other thing along the route that might have been there is an Italian restaurant. I can't remember the name. It was on the other side of the intersection of Nolensville Road and Thompson Lane. It had to move out because of junk they were doing to the road, but I ate there in the 90s and it looked pretty old. It as real Italian food, too, so I was sorry to see it go.
Coleman Park: I am having some difficulty in figuring out when this became a thing. I do know for a fact that the rec center is since Kathy's time as I found current architects in Nashville saying they worked on it. However, that doesn't mean that something was there that served that purpose (only not as fancy). ALSO, even if the park wasn't officially there.. maybe the land was empty?
Being that it was Thanksgiving Weekend, it could be that there were transients in town going to see people they knew or whatever and Kathy happened upon someone. I know that flies in the face of these familiar figures around town being involved, but it is a possiblity. There is a lot of trasnportation in that area and things were changing (as in the physical landscape), so there may have been things that people weren't quite aware of in their midst.
I have to continue on to see if I can find an old map that perhaps lets me know what was in that area at that time.
I did find out there were still some old houses around that were nice houses at one time. They were long gone by the time I lived in Nashville, but anyone who knew South Nashville and had a car might be able to find them.
I think they had an out of the way place, but not too far away. Just somewhere the police didn't check all of the time. Someplace that wasn't really in their thoughts for some reason.
I have to think that wherever Adcox lived, the police took a look at his dwelling to see if there was blood or signs of a clean up or signs that someone had been tied up. IDK, but it seems logical. Wherever this actually was it was somewhere they didn't know to look.
I looked up what it is like to exhume a person who has been buried as long. It really varies. For some they can do an autopsy and get a lot of results. For some, it's a mess. For some, it's bones. Where Kathy is, I don't think she would be subjected to a lot of water getting into her grave. I'll just leave it at that.
I need to find the articles that ran at the time.
And I do need to call the police, I was sick today and I didn't do it...
Thank you for everyone helping.
