Chalkboard Thoughts

        Judy Kanter graduated from Trotwood-Madison High School in Dayton, Ohio in the Springtime of 1975. She was 17. When you look at high school yearbooks from those days you get to see the kids of the baby boomer generation. They are bright and smiling. They all look so nice on picture day. It’s so strange to look at these photos and know that some of the boys would grow up to be violent and dangerous and some of the girls would not grow up at all.    In Judy Kanter’s yearbook there’s a great photo of her in a play. She’s singing. Her eyes are looking upward. She looks amazing. There’s a star quality about her.    In May, Judy graduated with her classmates and likely had a nice party to celebrate. By November of 1975, just six months later, she was gone.    In 1975, she was living at home with her parents; Corinne and William Braden at 6430 Westanna Drive in Dayton. She had an older sister named Marilyn and ...

  Three young Kentucky women were murdered in 1962. They were each murdered in different brutal ways. All three were found near Jeffersonville, Indiana. People began to wonder if a “Jack the Ripper” type killer was at work here. This was decades before the term “serial killer” began to be widely used.    On May 21st, 1962, 22 year old Julia Dawson was found on the side of the road near Jeffersonville, Indiana. The coroner would find that she died of Darvon poisoning on May 18th. The side of the road is a strange place to take poison and perish from it. It was quickly assumed that someone had murdered her and then placed her on the side of the road. Julia Ann Dawson was from Louisville. How did she end up murdered and dumped in Indiana?    On October 15th, 1962, 21 year old Nancy May Webb was also found in Jeffersonville. She had been beaten to death and strangled.    On November 8th 1962, 21 year old Anita Barmore was found just a b...