Cold case investigators seeking witnesses in the 1988 abduction and murder of Kathy Wilson

LAKEWOOD, N.Y. (WKBW) — Investigators with the Unsolved Chautauqua Unit of the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office believe they’re getting closer to solving the 37-year-old murder case of Kathy Wilson, focusing on what happened at the Chautauqua Mall.

“We do feel that we are narrowing our focus, and we feel that the case is very solvable,” Investigator Tom Tarpley told me.

Kathy Wilson, a 34-year-old Jamestown wife and mother, disappeared while on her lunch break on May 18, 1988, from her office job in Falconer. Her van was found early the following morning in the Chautauqua Mall parking lot…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS