[MUSIC PLAYING] NANCY GRACE: Boone
County, Kentucky, 1976. A passerby discovers the
body of a girl on a roadside. As a police officer,
there are many times where you get called to a scene
where there are dead bodies. Thankfully, fewer of
them involve children. NANCY GRACE: But
this case involves a teenager, a teenager who
has been raped and murdered. Our female victim
was partially clothed with a bra and a shirt. And additionally, there was
some jewelry located on her that was taken from
the scene as well. NANCY GRACE: The murder
leaves the victim's family struggling for answers. Who in their right mind
is with someone and decides, tonight, I'm going to
take this person's life. That's just beyond
my comprehension. NANCY GRACE: The
investigation that follows lasts over 40 years,
until the emergence of a revolutionary
forensic technique. This would not have been
solved without that science. It completely changed
the investigation here. And I'm very excited
about the possibilities that it could lead
in the future. Will this case ever be closed,
even with cutting-edge science and determined investigators? I'm Nancy Grace. This is "Bloodline Detectives." [THEME MUSIC] Boone County, Kentucky,
a quiet rural community just across the state line
from Cincinnati, Ohio. We moved here in 1965. It was very, very different
then than what it's like now. It's overpopulated. It's grown. There's hardly any, you
know, woodlands left. There's apartments
and stores everywhere. I liked it the old way,
but, you know, you have to go with what's going on. We don't have a
lot of murders here, but when we do have murders,
they tend to be the scratch your head, who done
it kind of murders. NANCY GRACE: On the
morning of June 5, 1976, a local driving to work
makes a horrific discovery. As he was making his
way across Chambers Road, he saw what he believed
to be a body laying there. And then, as he got out of
the vehicle and looked at it, he realized that this
was a young female, and was partially clothed. She obviously was deceased. And that was the phone call
that he made to the Kentucky State Police post. NANCY GRACE: The first
officer on the scene, Trooper Jan Hotchner. Very soon, more police follow. COY COX: There was a
young white female. Appeared to be about
16, 17 years of age. She was only wearing her
bra and a white blouse, and then, she was unclothed
the rest of her body. There was a lot of blood. You could see there had
been trauma to her head. NANCY GRACE: Investigators
searched the area for any tangible
evidence hoping for clues left behind by the killer. Our female victim
was partially clothed with a bra and a shirt. And that was really,
at least, initially, sort of the big evidence. And additionally,
there was some jewelry that was located on her that was
taken from the scene as well. COY COX: On those
items specifically, there were also hairs that
were taken as evidence. The body was removed from
the scene on Chambers Road to the office in
Florence, Kentucky, at Stith Funeral Home. It is so often the case
that, at the very early stages in a homicide, police
have a body, yes, they have some evidence, yes,
but what they don't have is an identity of the victim. They still don't have a name. Detective Keith
started working his case throughout the day, and
as the night wore on, then Mrs. Reneker
had called to report her daughter was missing. She hadn't come home. She'd been gone all night. And Detective Jerry Keith
went to the residence. He had described the
necklace that he had found, the two necklaces
and the earring. And when he described
that, Betty said, yes, that's Carol's. He felt sure then that,
hey, this was her daughter. To make positive identification,
there has to be a viewing. DEBBIE PONDER:
They needed someone to come and identify the body. So Thomas, her older
brother, who was 18, he stepped up, and identified
that it was Carol Sue. NANCY GRACE: An
autopsy reveals how Carol Sue Klaber was murdered. COY COX: The result
of it was the death was caused by blunt
force trauma to the head. She was hit many, many
times in the head. And that was the cause of death. But there was also
attempted strangulation with the necklaces
that she was wearing. DEBBIE PONDER:
And it was assumed a tire iron that he used to
bash her head, seven injuries. And head wounds bleed, you know? You can have a small
scratch, and you know that it will bleed. I cannot imagine the-- the crime scene. It had to be horrendous. NANCY GRACE: Carol's cousin
hears the awful news. DEBBIE PONDER: I doubted myself,
to be quite honest with you. It was such a shock. I looked at my mom and
I said, mom, you know, is it Carol Sue Klaber? Right? Our cousin? Yes. Oh, mom, you know,
she was murdered. So my mother, of course,
became very upset. And at that time, we
didn't have cell phones, and the only phone was
a payphone at the dock. So she took off out of the cabin
and went to the dock and called home, and I'm certain she
called my great grandmother, her grandmother. A beautiful teen girl,
brutally raped and murdered. Only a few clues left behind in
a quiet, neighborly community that's in shock. Will the killer of teen girl
Carol Klaber ever be found? Next, on "Bloodline Detectives." [MUSIC PLAYING] Walton, Kentucky, June, 1976. The body of a beautiful
teen girl, Carol Klaber, found dumped by the roadside. Carol had been raped,
and then struck repeatedly with blunt force. Investigators have
very little to go on as they piece
together clues found there in this remote location. COY COX: We have
had several bodies over the years that
are dumped immediately close to Interstate 75. m where her body was found, it
would have taken quite a while for the person to drive to that
location and to dump her body. So the actual location she
was in, it was really unusual. For local investigators,
everything so far seems very unusual about the case. Adding to that, the brutality
of what happened to Carol is frightening an
entire community. It takes what is otherwise
a very safe community and it makes them afraid,
especially for it to happen at a place like
Devou Park, a place you feel safe, that
families go to routinely, that people can walk. There was fear. There was a lot of fear in a
lot of the girls at school. Myself and our
friends, we made a basic constant social
rule, if we arrived together, and we go somewhere together,
we all leave together. It just made you more aware of
what could happen, that loss of innocence, so to speak. When investigators
chase down possible clues from the crime scene, they
also focus on another angle. Who is Carol Klaber? Is it possible she
knew her killer? BRIAN OXMAN: Carol was a
16-year-old young high school girl. She went to Dixie High
School in Kentucky. Her family was well-to-do. Her father was an engineer
in the oil industry, and he brought up a
daughter that he was going to cherish his whole life. She played the piano. She played lawn darts, and
she would play croquet. DEBBIE PONDER: She was
vivacious, but not gregarious. Fun, intelligent, very
smart, very athletic, very comfortable to be around. More taking almost a leadership
role in social situations. Dependable. You know, you knew
she was a friend. She was that type of person. You just knew she was--
she was the personality that would be a friend. Carol was a Girl Scout,
and she was a Brownie. Now, in Kentucky, this
was middle America, where there were values
about growing up and being a part of the community. And that was Carol. Because her father felt that. Her father died in 1970. It was a terrible
impact upon her. And she wanted to fulfill
what her dad wanted, and that was to be
someone who cared. Because when you are a part
of the Girl Scouts of America, you have a value of
caring for people. And in return, those
people care about you. MYRNA SHERMAN: Easy
to make friends with, real easy to talk to. But she also was kind of quiet. And it kind of took her
a while, to you know, to come to get to know people. But once she got to
know you, she was like-- and if she was a friend to
you, that's what she was. DEBBIE PONDER: She was a
success story in the works. Her talent, her intelligence,
her willingness to reach out to other people was very rare. She was-- she was a gift. She was a beautiful person. NANCY GRACE: Details
begin to emerge about the teen girl's movements
the day of her murder. DEBBIE PONDER: At that
time, some details were shared with my mother that
she had been riding her bike and came home and
said that she was going out to dinner with a man. COY COX: They. Placed her bicycle in
the trunk of the car. She got into the car
with him and drove back to her house, which is
a very strong indication that that was someone
that she knew. When they got back
to the house, she took the bike out of the
car, put it in the garage, went upstairs. Her mom heard her. She said she was
headed out to go to Zeno's, which was a
restaurant, with some friends. And so as she goes out the door,
mom didn't actually see her eye to eye, and she
looks out the window, and she had changed her purple
blouse to a white blouse and got into the vehicle
with a gentleman. The vehicle was described
by a lady across the street being a newer model
Pontiac Grand Prix or Chevy Monte Carlo. And she gave a description,
an amazing description of the individual as being
5' 10", slender build, approximately 150 pounds. Real light blond hair. Detective Keith had looked at
some other cases in the area that were unsolved, and
there was a sketch in one of those cases he would
have considered at that time a companion case that he
thought was related to this one. So there was a sketch that
eventually, in the Klaber case, was kind of put out, if
anyone recognizes this, because he believed at the time
that the same person who did a rape case in Park
Hills, Kentucky, was the same person
who would have done Carol Klaber's rape and murder. NANCY GRACE:
Investigators in 1976 feel they're beginning
to make progress. They've got a decent
description of the suspect and a possible link
to another rape case. COY COX: There
were several girls that had been raped and murdered
in the greater Cincinnati area during that time period,
so much so that Detective Keith met with other police
agencies to, you know, kind of have a little think tank
and see the commonality and all of those kinds of things. And out of those
type of meetings was where he decided
that the Park Hills case was really close. There were a lot of
similarities in the two cases, cigarette burns on the body,
attempted strangulation. And honestly, when we went
back and reviewed the case, we really saw his point,
so much so that we ended up going all the way down
that road to the suspect that he had originally
identified in that case. Investigators in
Boone County, Kentucky, have come so close to finding
the vicious rapist and killer that preyed on a
young teen girl, but close is not good enough. As we see next on
"Bloodline Detectives," it may take 40 years and
groundbreaking science for "Bloodline
Detectives" to try their best to close this case. [MUSIC PLAYING] It's been 40 long years
since the brutal rape and murder of teen
girl Carol Klaber in Boone County, Kentucky. Now, 2017, there's a new
generation of detectives who reopen the investigation. Over the years, we
always thought about her. Myself, and I know
some of her friends, she would be on people's minds. I would drive past
the Sheriff's Office and think about her every time. Did they ever solve that? Why did we never hear
anything more about that? Who was that person
that took her life? So she never leaves your mind. NANCY GRACE: The new
cold case investigators pour over case files from
Carol Klaber's murder. Their hope? That advances in
forensic DNA technology will lead them to the man who
so cruelly took this teen girl's life back in 1976. We went to Park Hills
Police Department. There were no police
officers still at Park Hills PD from 1976. So everyone there was
a different group, from chief on down. It's a smaller department. They had nothing to do with
the original investigation. So when we went there, we asked
if we could look at the case and make a copy of it. And the chief, who I admire
him for this, he said, hey, we will sign the case
over to you if you want, because it is
simply sitting there because we have to
keep it, and no one will ever look at it again. There were two very strong
suspects in this case, one of which was somebody who was
incarcerated and is presently incarcerated on charges
unrelated to this murder, and then, there was another
suspect that was just outright exonerated through evidence
related to this case through a DNA analysis. So we had two strong suspects. And in any case,
to have a suspect, let alone the
possibility of two, and when those two don't pan
out, that can be deflating. And you really have to
start back at square one as an agency, as a
group of investigators. We have to then refocus on,
OK, what do we have left? We worked pretty closely
with our cold case unit. Whenever they have
something come up, they usually bring it
to us and ask us kind of what the potential
is, and what's the best way to go about testing. So in this particular
circumstance, the cold case unit
had come across a hair that they thought could
be of potential value that was never fully exploited
with modern technology. So they brought that to
the criminal forensic unit, and we took a look at it and
proposed a plan for going forward with the testing. Initially, we gave it to
the Kentucky State Police. The Kentucky State Police
for us is the laboratory that handles all of our
DNA testing, at least, for the first round. They had inconclusive results. NANCY GRACE: The failure
to extract a DNA profile is a huge disappointment
to investigators, but they don't give up. Whenever we have
something, and particularly, in a cold case, where we
have an item of evidence that was brought to light by really
good cold case investigators, we really have
high hopes when we see things like that that
this could be the key. This could be the thing. And initial reports from the
state police were like, hey, I think we can maybe get
something out of this. So it was positive
in the beginning. So when we got the
inconclusive results, it was-- it was a setback. So often, there is a familiar
pattern in cases like this. First, a breakthrough. Then, a dead end. Then, another
breakthrough, and that is exactly what happens in
Carol Klaber's case, when Othram Laboratories
out of Texas, the world's leaders in
forensic genetic genealogy, reach out to Boone
County investigators. COY COX: I started getting
a lot of phone calls from a representative from
Othram, and most of that went along the lines
of, hey, we are a lab. We do genealogy. We want to help solve crimes. If you have cases
with unknown DNA profiles in the
national CODIS database, then we want to help you. NANCY GRACE: Othram's
work is expensive. So Boone County detectives
first need to find funding. COY COX: They had shared
with us the information about Season of Justice. The way they explained it
was, look, if you talk to them and apply for a grant, and
your case meets this criteria, there's a really good
chance they're going to provide the funding for you. And again, it's like, yeah, this
is too good to be true, but OK. Let's do it. We received from the agency
evidence of the assault. From that evidence, the
agency had identified an unknown male contributor. So there was male
DNA that was found, and they thought that
this male DNA came from the person
that had essentially assaulted and murdered her. The state lab created the DNA
profile for STR testing first, and then, that DNA was
sent to us in a tube. NANCY GRACE: Short Tandem
Repeat, STR analysis for short, is a method that creates
a person's DNA profile by counting the number
of times a small DNA sequence is repeated at a
specific chromosomal location. Hair has very different DNA
parameters than other types of inputs, for sure, and
would be something that would be difficult to run
through a standard medical test or consumer test assay. And I think that's why this
case had failed previously in other laboratories. We were able to assess the
characteristics of that DNA extract and figure out what the
best way to go about creating the best and most
robust DNA profile would be that we
could use to identify who that perpetrator was. BRIAN COCHRAN: Forensic
genetic genealogy kind of has, in my mind, two prongs. There is one prong that is
scientific, where we look at DNA and genetics
and relations between people over time,
and we use that angle. Also included in that would
be Y chromosomal testing, where we just look at the
male side of the family. And then, there's
a whole other prong that goes through very
traditional genealogy research, like family tree sort of
stuff that most folks are familiar with that you
couple with that scientific information in this day and age. And, hopefully, it gets us
to an investigative lead. KRISTEN MITTELMAN: That DNA
is uploaded to genealogical databases consented for
law enforcement use, and when they're uploaded,
you end up getting really, really distant matches. So instead of just being able
to confirm someone's identity, you can now figure out
that someone is related to this person as a
sixth cousin match, and this person is a
fifth cousin match, and this person is a
third cousin match. And you can figure out
how far away each match is from the person that left
the DNA at the crime scene, and then, you can
infer where the person that left the DNA at the crime
scene belongs in a family tree. And in doing
that, we were then able to derive enough matches,
enough people that shared at least some similarity in the
markers to which we could then piece together a family tree. And in building
that family tree, we were able to hone in
on leads that directed law enforcement to where we
thought the person might sit on that tree. I was a little skeptical. However, when Othram said
that they had a good profile, and they thought
that it was something that they could do
something with early on, then I was extremely hopeful. It's been 46 years since
teen girl Carol Klaber's horrific sex attack and murder. And now, investigators
finally have a powerful scientific weapon
that may identify her killer. That's next on
"Bloodline Detectives." [MUSIC PLAYING] Boone County, Kentucky, 2022. Detectives on the
cusp of discovering who killed teen
girl Carol Klaber all the way back in 1976. Investigators have provided
Othram Labs with a hair sample that was found at the
crime scene 46 years ago. That hair sample
hits a home run. It rules out the existing
persons of interest, but crucially, it
points to a new name and a new prime suspect. Because they had
an STR profile, they were able to do
one-to-one comparisons to exclude suspects. And I think there was two people
early on that were identified and ruled out because
their STR profiles did not match at all the STR
profile of the crime scene. And so even though
there was an early hope for success when they had
identified these suspects, both were excluded. And so after the process we went
through at Othram to build up the big profile and
develop the leads, we came across, you know,
eventually the person that they honed in on. His name was Thomas Dunaway. It was very exciting to be
able to share that with them because they had a new
suspect in the case. 40 years after the brutal
sex assault and murder of Carol Klaber,
a prime suspect is revealed thanks to
investigative genetic genealogy. The perp's name? Thomas Dunaway, last
known to be a resident of Park Hills, Kentucky. And like the murder
victim, Carol Klaber, Dunaway is a teen at
the time of the murder. When detectives
zero in on Dunaway, they discover he's got
an extensive and violent criminal history, including
arson and possession of an illegal firearm. When they dig deeper,
investigators find out Thomas Dunaway is dead. He died from a heart
attack in 1990. Detectives are denied the
chance to ever question him. But news from Othram Labs
confirms he's guilty. The news that we got back
was this was a 100% match. Thomas Dunaway is your guy
that committed the crime. Thomas Dunaway is who we,
through the DNA profile, identified as Carol
Klaber's murderer. After 47 years, finally
tracking down the killer, finally identifying Mr.
Dunaway as the killer was an extremely, extremely
gratifying experience. We wanted to have something
in writing formally, both for the family
and for the community, to say that Detectives
Cox and Adams had found and identified the killer. And so we sent them a
letter basically stating, that while we cannot do
a posthumous indictment, it was my opinion that they
had identified the killer, that there was proof beyond a
reasonable doubt that Thomas Dunaway had murdered
Carol Sue Klaber, and that had he
been alive, we would seek an indictment
and would seek to prosecute him for a murder. NANCY GRACE: Cold
case detectives discover that nine days
after Klaber's body is found, Thomas Dunaway enlists
in the US Army. He goes AWOL. Then, he murders 19-year-old
Ronald Townson in Boone County just six months after the
death of Carole Klaber. We believe that there's
a really good chance that Dunaway knew Carol
Klaber from the time they were much younger. LOUIS KELLY: Northern
Kentucky right now, it's a small community in
the sense that it's not hard to know everyone
here, but it was a much smaller community in 1976. So I think it is certainly
plausible, if not likely, that he knew her
and sought her out. In fact, I think it would be
unlikely to say that he didn't. DEBBIE PONDER: Knowing
how generous she was and how friendly she was, I
imagined that she invited him to go to dinner with everybody. Her friends were
all going to Zeno's. And I imagine she said,
come on, let's go. You know, you can go with me. And probably said,
well, hey, I'll drive. Because when you met somebody
and you were friends, you were always inviting them. Come on, let's go as a group. Let's go. I think that's what happened. BRIAN OXMAN: Social
scientists tell us that crimes of violence and
sex crimes are not about sex. It's hard to understand that. We think that this is
a sexual predator who wants to have a sexual thrill. The social scientists
tell us, no, no, no. That's not what it is. The crime of violence is an
issue of dominance, the issue of taking this
predator's personality and imposing it on someone
who is weaker and unable to defend themselves. That is usually the motive,
not some sexual thrill. Well, we don't know. We weren't there
for Carol's murder. We can't say for certain. But what we can say
is, generally speaking, these sexual crimes
are crimes to dominate and to humiliate a woman. And where that comes from, only
the good Lord seems to know. NANCY GRACE: Boone County
Law Enforcement goes public with the news, in part,
to tell the community this case is finally solved. But they're also
looking for any help in linking Dunaway to other
crimes in Kentucky and beyond. In this case, we
did a press conference because of the nature of
us solving a cold case that was nearly 50 years old. But also, given the
implications with this case, and the strong
belief that he may be responsible for other crimes,
possibly outside of the state of Kentucky, is also one of the
central focuses of what I had to do in relaying a
message to the public that was understandable
and that people could then take and absorb
so that it may benefit our case as a whole. The initial cause of
death was blunt force trauma, with also
evidence of sexual assault and strangulation. It was a bit
shocking, actually. I was working from home, and
I have multiple computers, and it came into my news feed. And of course, name. I'm sitting at home by myself,
and I just, oh my gosh. They found him. And I saw the picture. That's the picture that they
used in the news of her. You know, so I knew
there was no mistake. This was not a spam,
a made up thing. I immediately
picked up the phone and called the Sheriff's
Department and thanked them. It was-- I'm very grateful. Very grateful that they followed
up and they solved the crime. Thomas Dunaway was
definitely in Boone County around that period
of time, because he was arrested for a murder
in December of 1976. So Carol went missing and
was found raped and murdered on June the 5th, 1976, and six
months later, now, this person that has been identified
that, hey, this is someone you definitely should look at
committed a murder in Boone County six months later. I was literally floored. Because he had
murdered someone else, dumped them in near
about the same place, and received a life
sentence in prison, I believe, and he
only served 7 and 1/2 years of his prison sentence. And it's like, once a
liar, always a liar. Once a thief, always a thief. Once a killer, always
a killer, you know? It's not going to stop. If this were in Kentucky,
in my circuit right now, I would have a hard
time believing someone who committed an
intentional murder would be out after seven years. There's no way in the world
you can make any sense of it. When I read the report
from the parole officer-- so he got out on good
behavior at 7 and 1/2 years on a life sentence. But what was documented in
the report was enough to-- even if they needed
more than the fact that he had killed someone,
they articulated all kinds of infractions while
he was in there, which you would think, like,
yeah, you're not getting out. I have-- I have no explanation. It's, in my opinion, a complete
failure on the justice system. He should have not been out. How do you tell how? Do you tell that that person
has the capacity to do this when you meet someone? That was the first
thing that came to mind. Were there clues
of his personality? COY COX: He was where
he should have been, especially now that we know
that he not only did one murder, but he did two
murders and a rape. And what we believe to be more
across the Southern United States. Because three would make
him a serial killer. I just wish justice
had sent him there. But that's not mine to judge. I'm not a judge,
and I'm not God. NANCY GRACE:
"Bloodline Detectives" nail the identity of teen
girl Carol Klaber's killer. It's Thomas Dunaway. But investigators now believe
Dunaway is responsible for even more murders. Next, on "Bloodline Detectives." [MUSIC PLAYING] Boone County, Kentucky, 2022. Amazing forensic work by
"Bloodline Detectives" solves the 46-year-old
sex assault and murder of a beautiful
young girl, Carol Klaber. Her killer, Thomas Dunaway,
also convicted of another murder before he himself dies in 1990. Since there was a seven-year
period between his release from jail from the murder
of the second victim and Dunaway's own
death, investigators believe he very well may have
committed even more murders. Due to some information
developed by cold case detectives, there was the
potential that he could have been involved in others. And the best way to help the
other agencies that may have had him as a suspect is to
acquire a solid DNA sample from Mr. Dunaway himself. Since Mr. Dunaway had
been dead for 33 years, that meant that we had
to exhume the body. And the bone that was
requested in this case was ribs and molars. Those held the best potential
for the DNA evidence. So myself and Detective
Goodman suited up, full Tyvek, and anticipated getting into
the grave, recovering that bone, and being done. That is, unfortunately,
not what happened at all. In this particular
circumstance, after 33 years, Mr. Dunaway looked like he
had been put in the ground yesterday. So what that meant was that
with a fully preserved body, we had to climb into the grave,
remove the teeth and rib bones. We have solved our crime, but
the exhumation and everything else was for the sole
function of seeing if we could solve somebody else's. NANCY GRACE: Kentucky
State Police, currently working on
samples in the hopes of linking Thomas Dunaway to
even more unsolved murders. While his untimely death
means he cheated justice, credit still goes
to Boone County sheriffs who persisted for four
decades in this investigation. DEBBIE PONDER: I'm very
thankful to the Boone County Sheriff's Department
for not letting this go. It would have been easy just
to say that's a cold case and we have other things
that are more pressing, which you will hear that
in the judicial system. We have other cases
that are bigger. We have things that are larger. We have things that affect now. And that they didn't
walk away from her, I'm very impressed
and very grateful. BRIAN COCHRAN:
One of the reasons that we do this job is
to speak for victims. That's why we do this,
is to do the right thing. And in this particular
circumstance, we got to do that. And Miss Klaber
still had family that was very, very much interested
in what had happened to her. And we were able to give them
that little peace of mind. NANCY GRACE: Carol
Klaber's killer is identified thanks to
investigative genetic genealogy, a powerful
new investigative tool Othram Labs is using
to solve cold cases all across our country. Even if Season of Justice
had said, you know what? For whatever reason, we're
not going to fund it. They would have found a way. Othram was committed. And I've learned that
from dealing with them over this period of time. They would have found a way to
make sure that it got funded. We wouldn't be sitting here
today talking about solving Carol Klaber's case if
it wasn't for Othram and Season of Justice. I think if they realized that
they were going to get caught, and that it's a matter of
time, that less crime would be committed in the future. But I also believe that
maybe more people will start coming forward and confessing. The times, they
are a changing. And as a result of that,
there's new techniques. Therefore, you are duty bound
as law enforcement, as Boone County law enforcement
recognized, and I give them high
marks for doing that. LOUIS KELLY: It completely
changed the investigation here, and I'm very excited
about the possibilities that it could lead
in the future, for future investigations,
and, potentially, resolving other cold cases
we have in this community. When you have breakthroughs
in science, and then, that science is used for the
greater good, in any case, whether it's a cold
case, or a more active, ongoing murder investigation,
sexual assault, whatever it may
be, that's really a game-changer and
something that the community should really embrace. NANCY GRACE: After
more than 40 years, the murder of 16-year-old
Carol Klaber, finally solved, thanks to law
enforcement who never gave up, and to the power of
forensic science. DEBBIE PONDER:
After all this time, somebody valued her
as a person enough to put their energy
into this on her behalf. She's not here. She can't hold them accountable. She can't hold the Boone County
or the Kentucky State Police accountable for what happens
in solving the murder. They did this on their own. And that's an honor
to her, in my opinion. I don't think you ever
can get back your loved one, or justice can take back
what happened to you or to someone you cared about. But I think that the truth
can allow you to move forward. Groundbreaking science and
great police work, each one amazing in their own right. But when they are combined, even
46-year-old cases like Carol Klaber's murder can be solved. I'm Nancy Grace. Thanks for joining us here
on "Bloodline Detectives." [MUSIC PLAYING] [THEME MUSIC]
