Update Karen Caughlin
There is news re Karen Caughlin! The Lambton Shield reports that “one of the suspects in the 1974 murder of Karen Caughlin may have died.
It is believed that Miss Caughlin was struck by a vehicle and left for dead in a shallow ditch on the side of Plowing Match Road (formally known as Side Road 6-7) in Enniskillen Township, a couple kilometers northwest of the town of Petrolia.
Her body is said to have been located on the 16th of March, 1974, around 9:50 a.m., by an area farmer, Mr. Fred Bygrove.
No substantive leads in the case have been released by police.”
On March 15, 1974, Karen Caughlin went to school as usual. She was a ninth grade student at Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School, in Sarnia. We know that Karen had made after-school plans. She went to a friend’s home and later they went to the Rose Garden roller rink located in Point Edward around 7:00 p.m. They had made tentative arrangements for Karen to stay overnight at her friend’s house.
Karen and her friend left the rink around 11:00 p.m. and accepted a ride from a couple of boys and left in a pick-up truck. Karen’s friend was dropped off at her home a short time later. Karen continued to drive around the area with these boys before picking up a third teenage boy. The four teenagers then continued to drive around the city, stopping at the A & W for a root beer, and visiting other unidentified friends until Karen was dropped off near her friend’s house on Brock Street around 1:00 a.m. where she was to spent the night. This was the last time Karen was seen alive.
I know that one of the three boys has passed away but I read in newspaper articles that the cops did not consider them to be suspects. Why not? I don’t know. I hope to gather some more information to update this case asap!
#cclivechat on August 17 is dedicated to this case in preparation of a protest Karen Caughlin’s sister Kathy is organizing for Aug 18, 2012.
To be continued!
Categories: #CCLiveChat, Cold Case News, Forensics, Unsolved
Tags: Autopsy, Canada, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Karen Caughlin, OPP, Police, Sarnia, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses
This article that ran in the Lambton Shield was made up by the Editor of this paper. No facts to back his story! It was also extremely upsetting for my family to read such speculative garbage in a local paper. He thought of no one but himself when he wrote this crap! Just another parasite trying to get attention of a murdered child.
Kathy Caughlin