Post by WOLVERETT on Mar 2, 2016 16:50:21 GMT -5
It was 2:20 a.m. that July day in 1965 when the bell rang in the lobby of Kansas City’s Great Plains Motel.
Night manager Dorothy Reynolds stirred from her sleep to let in a young man with dark hair and “very blue eyes.”
He spoke in a soft voice and had “well-formed, handsome features,” she later would say.
She considered it just a routine customer check-in. He had something else in mind.
“Don’t say nothing. Just give me the money,” he said, pulling out a long-barreled revolver.
Reynolds did as she was told, and the robbery would have been long forgotten if all the man had taken was the $246 from the motel register.
But he got away that morning with something far more more precious: Reynolds’ 9-year-old granddaughter, Denise Sue Clinton.
Her friends and family never saw the Independence girl alive again.
Two years later, a pair of cowboys riding through a pine forest near Sundance, Wyo., came across her skeletal remains.
Authorities never caught the kidnapper.
Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of Denise’s abduction. Her parents and most of the lawmen who worked countless hours to find her killer are dead.
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article26501554.html#storylink=cpy