WV WV - Kathleen Farmer, 38, Parkersburg, 20 Mar 1984

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Kathleen Virginia Farmer
Nickname/Alias Kathy Jo Hanger, Cathy Lemon, Cathyleen
Wood County, West Virginia
38 to 39 year old white female

Height (inches)

Weight (pounds)

[TD="class: view_field"]62.0 to 65.0[/TD]

[TD="class: view_field"]125.0 to 135.0[/TD]

Brown Hair
Blue Eyes

Scar on chest

Tattoo upper left arm


Circumstances: According to court documents sometime between March 21st and April 5th, 1984, Cathleen Virgina Farmer accepted a ride home from three men. The men took Farmer to an apartment on Campus Drive in Belpre, raped and murdered her. Court papers say the men then disposed of her body by dropping it over the Memorial Bridge.

Dental information / charting is currently not available

DNA Status: Initial inquiry underway

Fingerprint information is available and entered

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/40559/

Please help find a photo of Cathy.

 

[Gardener1850]

By WTAP News |
Posted: Tue 4:28 PM, Nov 02, 2010

The man believed to be partly responsible for the rape and murder of a Washington County woman, 26 years ago, will spend another year in jail.

Gary "Rocky" Gibson never stood trial for the murder of Cathy Farmer because he was in jail on unrelated charges at the time of the trial.

Farmer's family members say he's the ringleader of the three men who raped and murdered her back in 1984.

Recently, Gibson's parole was revoked for another year. He's still behind bars at Mount Olive Correctional Center on charges unrelated to the murder.
The Washington County Sheriff's office has reopened the investigation into Cathy Farmer's murder.

Read more: http://www.thenewscenter.tv/home/headlines/25_Years_Later_And_Still_Seeking_Justice.html

 

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Victim’s sister fears man’s prison release
DEC 19 2015

When Marietta resident Faye Farmer received a letter in the mail at the end of last month notifying her that Gary Allen Gibson would be released from prison at the start of the new year, she realized that her ongoing fear was about to be reality.


“I am scared to death if this guy gets out,” Farmer said. “I don’t know why he was never indicted.”

Farmer is the sister of the late Cathy Farmer Gill, a 36-year-old mother of five who was raped and murdered in Belpre more than 30 years ago, and she has been fighting for justice for her sister ever since.

“I got a letter from the parole board that Gibson would be paroled Jan. 4,” Farmer said on Thursday. “Then they sent me another letter, which I got yesterday, saying they caught him with a controlled substance.”

Gibson, who is serving time for multiple charges of burglary, escape, breaking and entering, manslaughter and recidivism in West Virginia, was the only one of three of the men believed to be allegedly involved in Gill’s murder who was never convicted.


At first, an indictment never came through against Gibson because the Washington County Prosecutor’s Office had trouble getting the other two defendants, Richard Starkey and Steve Scott Carmichael, to testify against him, along with other issues, including the fact that Gill’s body was never found.

RSBM much more at link.

 

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Murder victim’s sister worried
MAR 28 2017

Thirty-three years after her sister’s disappearance, Faye Farmer, 63, of Marietta, says she is terrified for her own and her family’s safety now that a man suspected by law enforcement of the murder is out of prison.


“I’m just stuck,” said Farmer as she choked back tears on Monday. “I’m seriously stuck and don’t know which way to go. I got a letter from the West Virginia Parole Board saying I need to get steel doors and change my phone number and always have a full tank of gas in case I need to get away… All I want is justice, I want him to account for what he did to my sister. He’s going to kill again someday.”

Farmer’s sister, Cathleen Farmer Gill, was killed after accepting a ride home from a bar at Seventh and Avery streets in Parkersburg in March of 1984.

Two men eventually confessed to the rape, murder and disposal of Gill’s body into the Ohio River, but the third suspect was never indicted in the case. He was recently released from a West Virginia prison after serving more than 20 years on burglary and conspiracy to commit a felony charges in Wood County. He was also convicted for killing a fellow inmate back in the 1980s, but the conviction was tossed out in 2008 by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals because the judge at the time improperly required Gibson’s defense witnesses to wear prison clothes and shackles.

RSBM much more at link.

 

[kimmo]

I'm having trouble locating Cathy in Namus.

 

[Caring1]

I'm having trouble locating Cathy in Namus.

She is listed under Kathleen Farmer, link below:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[kimmo]

She is listed under Kathleen Farmer, link below:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Thank you! Cathleen/Kathleen, Gill/Farmer confusing!

 

[Pennysmom1]

Still listed as missing at NAMUS

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[MadMcGoo]

According to all the Ancestry records I’ve found, she was born Cathyleen Virginia Farmer in Ohio (1946). Lemon, Nunn and Gill are married surnames. I’m still trying to find a photo…