Post by ophion1031 on Sept 8, 2018 20:26:16 GMT -8
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BERKELEY, Calif. —
Police are always trying to solve cold case homicides. In Berkeley, investigators have an unsolved killing that happened 48 years ago Thursday.
A quiet tree-lined street is where the body of a 17-year-old girl was found back in 1966.
It was a very different time. The U.C. Berkeley campus was in the middle of the free speech movement, which helped Ronald Reagan win the governor's office, and it was when Robert Kennedy gave a speech at Cal.
But on September 18, 1966, not far away from the school on Eton Avenue near Woolsey Street, police made a shocking discovery. "I went there and there she was, sitting in the passenger seat, slumped over," said 85-year-old former Berkeley Police Officer Manvil Hendrickson.
By phone from his home near Sacramento, the former officer said he found the body of Cheryl "Cathy" Nolan. "It was some kind of a pistol shot at... we later assumed it was fired by somebody standing outside the driver’s door."
The person who has kept Nolan's memory alive more than anyone is her cousin, Pam Nolan, who was just 10 years old at the time. "She was a beautiful 17-year-old girl. She actually looked like Ann Margaret. That's what everyone said."
Newspapers from the time described Cathy - as she was known - as an attractive or pretty auburn-haired girl, and also revealed she spent time in coffee houses in the Telegraph area. "And I miss her terribly. I think someone took her, and took her away from my life. And that's what really makes me mad," said Pam Nolan, still stung by the loss 48 years later.
Police never found Cathy Nolan's killer. But now they say it might take just one piece of information to solve the case. "Even if it's a very small detail that they may have not felt was relevant at the time, could be astronomical for us in terms of trying to garner a new lead or new direction," said Berkeley Police Officer Jennifer Coats.
There has been some speculation that Cathy Nolan was an additional victim of the notorious Zodiac Killer.
NOTE: This girl was murdered pretty damn close to where JK Fry lives!! Where he lives today that is, but I have no idea how long he has lived at this home or where he lived in the 60's...
"JK Fry" lives at **** Ross St. in Oakland. I will post the distances from his front door to the locations mentioned here...
5830 Birch Ct, Oakland, CA = 0.5 miles
2400 block of Telegraph Ave in Berkeley = 2.2 miles
The corner of Eton and Woolsley = 0.7 miles
The corner of Ashby and Claremont = 2.2 miles
Her body was found just a few blocks from Fry's home.
NOTE: Valerie Percy was also murdered on Sept. 18, 1966. She was killed at approximately 5:00 am in Kenilworth, IL. 3 days later, Sept, 21, 1966, Clare Anderson was murdered in her Walnut Creek home. She was raped and then strangled with a necktie.
BERKELEY, Calif. —
Police are always trying to solve cold case homicides. In Berkeley, investigators have an unsolved killing that happened 48 years ago Thursday.
A quiet tree-lined street is where the body of a 17-year-old girl was found back in 1966.
It was a very different time. The U.C. Berkeley campus was in the middle of the free speech movement, which helped Ronald Reagan win the governor's office, and it was when Robert Kennedy gave a speech at Cal.
But on September 18, 1966, not far away from the school on Eton Avenue near Woolsey Street, police made a shocking discovery. "I went there and there she was, sitting in the passenger seat, slumped over," said 85-year-old former Berkeley Police Officer Manvil Hendrickson.
By phone from his home near Sacramento, the former officer said he found the body of Cheryl "Cathy" Nolan. "It was some kind of a pistol shot at... we later assumed it was fired by somebody standing outside the driver’s door."
The person who has kept Nolan's memory alive more than anyone is her cousin, Pam Nolan, who was just 10 years old at the time. "She was a beautiful 17-year-old girl. She actually looked like Ann Margaret. That's what everyone said."
Newspapers from the time described Cathy - as she was known - as an attractive or pretty auburn-haired girl, and also revealed she spent time in coffee houses in the Telegraph area. "And I miss her terribly. I think someone took her, and took her away from my life. And that's what really makes me mad," said Pam Nolan, still stung by the loss 48 years later.
Police never found Cathy Nolan's killer. But now they say it might take just one piece of information to solve the case. "Even if it's a very small detail that they may have not felt was relevant at the time, could be astronomical for us in terms of trying to garner a new lead or new direction," said Berkeley Police Officer Jennifer Coats.
There has been some speculation that Cathy Nolan was an additional victim of the notorious Zodiac Killer.
NOTE: This girl was murdered pretty damn close to where JK Fry lives!! Where he lives today that is, but I have no idea how long he has lived at this home or where he lived in the 60's...
"JK Fry" lives at **** Ross St. in Oakland. I will post the distances from his front door to the locations mentioned here...
5830 Birch Ct, Oakland, CA = 0.5 miles
2400 block of Telegraph Ave in Berkeley = 2.2 miles
The corner of Eton and Woolsley = 0.7 miles
The corner of Ashby and Claremont = 2.2 miles
Her body was found just a few blocks from Fry's home.
NOTE: Valerie Percy was also murdered on Sept. 18, 1966. She was killed at approximately 5:00 am in Kenilworth, IL. 3 days later, Sept, 21, 1966, Clare Anderson was murdered in her Walnut Creek home. She was raped and then strangled with a necktie.