Unsolved case still haunting authorities
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Updated: 6:53 PM Oct 30, 2009
Unsolved case still haunting authorities
It's a bizarre case still haunting investigators 14 years later. A teenager dies on a Kentucky interstate after police say someone stole a tombstone, threw it off an overpass, and into the car a teen was riding in.
Posted: 5:41 PM Oct 30, 2009
Reporter: Tamara Evans
Email Address: tamara.evans@wkyt.com
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It's a bizarre case still haunting investigators 14 years later. A teenager dies on a Kentucky interstate after police say someone stole a tombstone, threw it off an overpass, and into the car a teen was riding in.

Investigators think it may have been a prank, but no one has ever been arrested for a crime that left one person dead. They're still determined to find the person responsible.

Just a couple of weeks before Halloween in 1995, authorities were investigating a bad crash on I-75 in Rockcastle County.

"There was a grave marker that was thrown from the overpass at the 55 mile marker on I-75 around 2:00 in the morning", says Sgt. Jesse Owens with Kentucky State Police.

A tombstone taken from an area cemetery was tossed off the bridge, going into a van and killing 17-year-old Stephanie Kuhar from Michigan, who was riding with her family.

"It was probably meant as a prank, you know, this time of year with Halloween. It was a tragedy. A young girl lost her life", says Sgt. Jesse Owens.

"It's sad in my opinion", says local resident John York.

"They never did catch who did it", says local resident Ed Baker.

For years people tossed out ideas of who the person responsible could be.

"Nobody knows if it was kids or grown-ups really. It could have been school kids or something like that", says Ed Baker.

"They worked on this case pretty hard at the time, but it's went cold and we ask for the public's help", says Sgt. Jesse Owens.

More than a decade after the horrible crime police continue to look into this case that people continue to wonder about.

"I can't see how they sleep with it. They may not have known they hurt somebody. They just threw it over the wall of the bridge and it hit that car", says Ed Baker.

If you have information about this case, you're asked to call the KSP London post at (606) 878-6622.


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Posted by: Wil Location: Mt. Vernon on Nov 3, 2009 at 05:49 PM

Let us not forget, it occured in the late Paul Harvey's county pick for getting away with murder - Rockcastle. Murder seldom solved here without a confession. (State Police notwithstanding).
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Posted by: Scott on Nov 1, 2009 at 11:34 AM

Im guessing that the people responsible has difficulty sleeping every night. Paranormal activity would be a good movie for them to watch this weekend maybe.
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Posted by: Johnnie on Oct 31, 2009 at 11:59 AM

this just goes to show you that all overpasses need to have a fence -(barrier)- installed on them, so nobody can throw objects off of them. It is a shame this tragedy happened. I hope the police catch whoever did it.
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