• Thomas Dunaway’s obituary details were revealed almost 32 years ago.
  • A 46-year-old murder investigation into the death of a Northern Kentucky teenager has finally been solved. 
  • Carol Sue Klaber, a 16-year-old teenager, was murdered in cold blood in 1976.
  • The killer was identified as Thomas Dunaway, who was 19 years old at the time of the murder. 

Dunaway died in December 1990 at 33, and his wrongdoings were well-hidden and remained undiscovered as long as he was alive.

According to Boone County Sheriff’s office, a 46-year-old murder investigation into the death of a Northern Kentucky teenager has finally been solved. 

Carol Sue Klaber, a 16-year-old teenager, was murdered in cold blood in 1976. She was found dead in a ditch along Chambers Road near Union on June 5. 

Events leading upto Carol’s gruesome murder included her leaving her home for a bike ride in the park. According to a neighbor, she returned with a young man driving a two-tone car. 

She went inside her home, took a few minutes to get ready, and left again in the young man’s car. The poor victim did not know about the tragedy that was awaiting her. 

According to the officials, Carol was brutally beaten and strangled. A post-mortem examination revealed that she was s*xually assaulted before being murdered. 

Klaber was a junior at Dixie Heights High School, where she played violin in the school’s string ensemble. She was described as being “popular with her classmates.”

After getting approval for funding, the sheriff’s office said they sent the DNA collected at the crime scene to Othram Lab, a private lab that uses genealogy analysis. The analysis led the Sheriff’s office toward their suspect. 

The killer was identified as Thomas Dunaway, who was 19 years old at the time of the murder. According to the Sheriff’s office, there won’t be any formal charges against Dunaway as he is not alive. 

But the Sheriff’s office has announced that Dunaway would have been indicted on assault and murder charges if he were alive. 

Detective Coy Cox said Dunaway had been on a six-month crime spree and had a pattern of committing crimes and ditching the cars he’d driven when those crimes occurred.

Dunaway was convicted of murder in another Boone County killing that happened a little more than six months after Klaber’s death, according to Cox.

Thomas Klaber, the brother of Carol Sue, talked with WLWT about the development. He said, “time doesn’t heal these wounds. She was probably destined to be better than all of us, but she never got her day.”

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