For years, the murders of Rhonda Travers and Kathy Perry sat stagnant without any promise of justice.

But when an informant surfaced with a story about a suspect who had never before been investigated, it changed everything.

There's always names that come up in every case, you know, look at this one, look at that

one, or whatever.

There's always something, though, that just doesn't fit, you know.

People get ruled out for whatever reason they had alibi, they had this, or what have you.

In these two cases, once his name surfaced, everything fit.

Everything. If you haven't already, please go back one episode in your feed and listen to part one of

this two-part series before diving in here. I'm Kylie Lowe, and these are the cases of Kathy Perry

and Rhonda Travers, part 2, On Dark Down East.

Warwick Police Detective Sergeant Fred Pierce was several years into the renewed investigation

of the 1986 homicide of 20-year-old

Kathy Perry when he received a phone call from Robert Bob Catlow, the chief inspector of the

Rhode Island Department of Corrections. Chief Catlow had seen the Facebook page that Fred had

created for Kathy Perry's case.

Long story short, he said, I have a long time informing at the E.SGI who was willing to come forward with information.

He knows what killed Kathy.

When Chief Catlow relayed the name of the person this informant claimed killed Kathy Perry,

it stopped Sergeant Pierce in his tracks.

And he told me, Stanley, he used the name Stanley, and it was like, oh boy.

Stanley is not the suspect's real name.

Sergeant Pierce requested to use this fake name when referring to the suspect, and we're

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