Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Kentucky Man Charged In Cold Case Murder

{Kentucky}...After almost thirty years of searching for answers of who killed a Florida mother of two, an arrest has been made in Kentucky. Fifty-nine year old William Gary Hurst lives in Hopkins County, Kentucky, where he was arrested. But 29 years ago, he was married to Amy Hurst who was 29 when she went missing. Not even a month later, Amy's body was found in the Gulf of Mexico, wrapped in an afghan and tied to a cement block, but no one thought the body was Amy's until 2009. Amy's son Jeff, who was nine when his mother disappeared, called investigators after he spent time on the Doe Network- a database that catalogs unidentified missing people. He noticed that the afghan his mother's body had been wrapped in looked a lot like one his grandmother had made. Subsequent forensic testing led to a positive ID in July of this year. It's taken until now to charge William Gary Hurst with Amy's murder. Back in 1982, her kids were living with their father in Michigan when Amy Hurst was reported missing. Authorities say when they asked William what happened to her, he told them she left him. Hurst is awaiting extradition to Florida.