Located among Kentucky's rolling green hills is the faithful and close-knit community of Park Hills.

Though now considered a scenic and safe place to live, Park Hills was the site of one woman's nightmare.

On the evening of October 1st, 1978, a young mother left dance rehearsal to return home to her baby daughter.

As she entered her garage, she was suddenly grabbed, forced into a car, and driven blocks away.

For nearly four hours, the young woman was repeatedly raped and tortured, both physically and psychologically, by a monster, who at one

minute would tell her he loved her, and then threatened to kill her the next. Using her wits,

the young mother told her abductor about her past, riddled with trauma, and pleaded for her

life and to spare her daughter a similar fate. It worked. Miraculously, she was

let out of the car and instructed to walk away without looking back. For 40 years, the woman known

as the Park Hill survivor was haunted by memories of this violent and faceless monster. Her case went cold until 2017,

when two skilled detectives took another look,

believing that the Park Hill survivor

may have survived something more sinister.

I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

Music is the Fox True Crime podcast. Detective Coy Cox is a veteran detective who leads the cold case unit in the Boone County Sheriff's Office, which also happens to be the only full-time cold case investigative unit within the entire state.

At the time, Detective Cox and his partner, Detective Tim Adams,

were reviewing a cold case murder within their own jurisdiction.

In 1976, 19-year-old Carol Sue Claibor was found brutally murdered in a roadside ditch.

She had died of blunt force trauma, although there was also evidence of strangulation and sexual assault.

When the detectives looked back at the survivor' case to see if there was any chance

that the crimes were connected, they discovered that key pieces of information were absent,

and that most of the evidence had been destroyed by virtue of a destruction order.

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