Chad Donaldson, 36, was murdered in Belton on Dec. 22, 2014, and a decade later, his mother is still searching for answers.
Over the course of a decade, KSHB 41 followed Jenny Hite’s push for justice in her son’s case and other unsolved murder cases in the metro.
“The pain was too close to home, I had to stop working with other families,” explained Hite, Donaldson’s mother. “It’s like a dark cloud comes over and you feel total anguish and despair. Then it passes and you can keep on going.”
Brian Luton/KSHBCorey’s Network is a local victim’s advocate non-profit organization in Kansas City. Hite became the group’s first client searching for justice following the organization’s 2014 inception.
“If they would arrest and convict Chad’s murderer, it wouldn’t bring Chad back,” she said. “But, I feel like a page would close.”
Donaldson was shot and killed a few blocks from his home in Belton, Missouri. He frequented a QuikTrip gas station nearby and was reportedly seen at the store before he was killed.