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Family clings to hope in decades-old homicide
"Giving up on helping to find their mother’s killer is not an option to the surviving children of Reba Jean Jeter, even after more than 40 years.
The desire is so strong Courtney Jeter, one of Reba’s sons, is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for her slaying in the 1970s and said he will pay up to $100,000.
“Nothing I have accomplished or the family has accomplished over the years takes away this pain,” Courtney said. “It’s constant. We won’t stop searching for the truth and justice.
“There are probably one or two people who have this secret of who did it,” he said. “We’re hoping the money will get someone to talk.”
Jeter, 41, of Vine Grove, a mother of nine children at the time of her death, was found Jan. 17, 1979, in woods off a lane near a quarry two miles east of Radcliff along Ky. 434. Her frozen body had 27 stab wounds.
A man looking for salvageable materials found Jeter’s body. She was last seen by family in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 1979 after attending a party the night before.
Time has not eased the pain.
Their father, Richard Leon Jeter Jr., died in 1997. He was 67.
Lorrie McDowell, one of Jeter’s daughters, said her mother’s killing was a “crime of passion.” She said her mother’s clothes and purse later were found neatly folded after her body was located as authorities searched a wider circumference to where her body was found. There was no blood on her clothes, according to previous news accounts."
"Giving up on helping to find their mother’s killer is not an option to the surviving children of Reba Jean Jeter, even after more than 40 years.
The desire is so strong Courtney Jeter, one of Reba’s sons, is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for her slaying in the 1970s and said he will pay up to $100,000.
“Nothing I have accomplished or the family has accomplished over the years takes away this pain,” Courtney said. “It’s constant. We won’t stop searching for the truth and justice.
“There are probably one or two people who have this secret of who did it,” he said. “We’re hoping the money will get someone to talk.”
Jeter, 41, of Vine Grove, a mother of nine children at the time of her death, was found Jan. 17, 1979, in woods off a lane near a quarry two miles east of Radcliff along Ky. 434. Her frozen body had 27 stab wounds.
A man looking for salvageable materials found Jeter’s body. She was last seen by family in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 1979 after attending a party the night before.
Time has not eased the pain.
Their father, Richard Leon Jeter Jr., died in 1997. He was 67.
Lorrie McDowell, one of Jeter’s daughters, said her mother’s killing was a “crime of passion.” She said her mother’s clothes and purse later were found neatly folded after her body was located as authorities searched a wider circumference to where her body was found. There was no blood on her clothes, according to previous news accounts."
