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Patricia Sue McCabe:1982, Warrick County, Indiana

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  Patricia Sue "Patsy" McCabe 1952-1982   When I was first starting this project my best friend reminded me of an incident from our childhood. She asked if I remembered plans for a sleepover that had to be canceled because of some sort of a manhunt. I had not remembered that at all. In talking with one another we pieced together the story:   Several of us had been invited to a sleepover at another friend’s house. We were going to stay in their little playhouse/cabin near Selvin. But, at the last minute the get together was canceled because a body had been found nearby.    We were piecing together when it might have been. I asked if it was before or after Kathy Kohm had been murdered in another nearby town of Santa Claus, Indiana. My best friend said that she thought it was after. It is sad that Kathy’s 1981 murder had become a waypoint in our lives but it has. Kathy’s murder left a huge impact on everyone’s lives in the Tri-State area.  ...
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Ax Murder on the Ohio River

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       Isabella and Cyrus M. Park lived on a farm near Charlestown, Indiana. It was about seven miles from Charlestown and three miles from Henryville in the southeastern part of Indiana. It’s also not far from the Ohio River there in Clark County.    Clark County is named for George Rogers Clark who settled along the Ohio River after the Revolutionary War. He built a cabin just above a large limestone outcropping along the Ohio in what is now Jeffersonville just across from modern day Louisville, Kentucky. His younger brother, William Clark went across the United States with Meriwether Lewis thanks to Sacajawea guiding and translating for them. That limestone outcropping is a place you can visit today and it is chock full of prehistoric fossils. I have been there and I highly recommend it.     Cyrus Mop Park had served briefly in the Union Army at the tail end of the Civil War. He was a respected member of the community around Clar...
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