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On Halloween night, 1967, 9 year-old Carolyn Jean McLaughlin left the Staunton, Va home of her mother to go trick-or-treating. Carolyn, dressed as a "go-go girl", was never seen alive again.
Following weeks of intensive searching by local and state authorities as well as assistance from the FBI, Carolyn was found by a hunter some 40 miles from Stuanton near the town of New Market. Carolyn was found in Smith Creek under a bridge in a rural area. She was still wearing the costume she had been trick-or-treating in. The medical examiner determined she had most likely died the night she was abducted. Though he ruled Carolyn had died of suffocation, there was water in her lungs indicating she had been placed into the stream alive, though probably unconscious. There were no obvious signs of molestation.
Ten years later, in July of 1977, charges were filed against 33 year-old Herbert David Alger, who had last been living in the small town of Stanley. Alger, at the time of the arrest, was already in prison for an earlier arson charge. Alger, along with two other men, had long been a suspect in the death of Carolyn. The other two suspects were both dead by 1977, one having been murdered and the other having committed suicide.
By 1980, Alger was in prison serving two life sentences (one for the murder of little Carolyn) as well as an addtional 23 years on various other charges. In June of '80, Alger was killed in a prison riot.
(Sources: Petersburg VA Progress-Index, 11-21-67; Danville VA Register, 7-30-1977)
Following weeks of intensive searching by local and state authorities as well as assistance from the FBI, Carolyn was found by a hunter some 40 miles from Stuanton near the town of New Market. Carolyn was found in Smith Creek under a bridge in a rural area. She was still wearing the costume she had been trick-or-treating in. The medical examiner determined she had most likely died the night she was abducted. Though he ruled Carolyn had died of suffocation, there was water in her lungs indicating she had been placed into the stream alive, though probably unconscious. There were no obvious signs of molestation.
Ten years later, in July of 1977, charges were filed against 33 year-old Herbert David Alger, who had last been living in the small town of Stanley. Alger, at the time of the arrest, was already in prison for an earlier arson charge. Alger, along with two other men, had long been a suspect in the death of Carolyn. The other two suspects were both dead by 1977, one having been murdered and the other having committed suicide.
By 1980, Alger was in prison serving two life sentences (one for the murder of little Carolyn) as well as an addtional 23 years on various other charges. In June of '80, Alger was killed in a prison riot.
(Sources: Petersburg VA Progress-Index, 11-21-67; Danville VA Register, 7-30-1977)