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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.
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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.
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Hello everyone.
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Welcome to Cold and Missing.
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I'm Ali.
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And I am Eli.
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Thank you all so much for hanging in there.
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I know there was no episode last week.
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I don't know how the weather has been in your neck of the woods, but here it was up and
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down and all around, so I ended up getting a pretty bad migraine.
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So I appreciate you hanging in there and hanging with us.
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But I think we should get into it.
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All right, let's dive in.
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Today we are covering a cold case, and it's the case of Jim Duckett.
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It happens in Shelbyville, Kentucky in November of 2008.
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But first a little bit about Jim.
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Jim was 43 years old in 2008.
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He had recently moved back to the Shelbyville, Kentucky area and had joined a church that
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conveniently sat across the street from his house, making it easy for him to quickly become
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a familiar face in both Sunday services and volunteer activities.
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Jim was a seven-year veteran of the Army, where he served as a military police and even
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served as part of Ronald Reagan's Secret Service after he was honorably discharged.
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Jim was a really handy guy.
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He had worked as a carpenter, electrician, and even repaired computers.
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His sister, Katherine, says, quote, he lived with us for a few years, and he loved to go
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to Lowe's, and so did I.
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We'd go and he'd say, this would look good, and that would look good.
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There wasn't anything he couldn't do with his hands.
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Electric, plumbing, anything, end quote.
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And now a timeline of events.
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In the weeks leading up to Jim's murder, his house was robbed on Halloween.
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His jewelry was taken from the home.
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Jim began to feel antsy in his home and started to talk about moving.
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He bought a home security system after the robbery.
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On Sunday, November 9th, 2008, Katherine, that's Jim's sister, had been trying to
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get a hold of him and he wasn't picking up the phone.
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She called a couple of friends from his church and they mentioned that he hadn't shown up
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for Sunday service.
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This was also strange for Jim.
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Katherine decided to drive by Jim's house to see what was up.
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When she drove past the home, she noticed that her brother's new truck wasn't in
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the driveway.
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Years later, she'll recall, quote, I knew then in my gut that something was wrong.
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So we went out to the house that night and walked around the house.
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I had the key to his house, but I didn't go in because I didn't want my brother to
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think I didn't trust him, end quote.
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So Katherine left that night, deciding to wait and see if her brother would finally
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return her phone call.
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The next day, Monday, November 10th, Katherine decided to head over and unlock Jim's door
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to see why he wasn't responding to her phone calls.
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Katherine was on the phone with her sister, Rebecca.
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When she entered his home, she saw something that would affect her for the rest of her
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life.
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She found her brother, Jim, dead in the bathroom.
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He had been tied to a kitchen chair by using neckties and rope.
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Bernie Napier with the Kentucky State Police says, quote, it's obvious that James was tortured.
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To what end?
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I don't know if we can say at this point, but it was a very gruesome crime scene, end
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quote.
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We do know that he died from multiple stab wounds and his death is described as execution
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style.
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Years later, police will say that Jim's throat was slit.
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What Katherine remembers from this moment is, quote, from what I remember, his bathroom
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was all white, but it wasn't white.
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It was, it was his bathroom was just blood everywhere, end quote.
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As Katherine attempted to process what she was seeing out loud, her sister, Rebecca,
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was still on the phone with her.
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She thought that perhaps Jim had died by suicide, but then she noticed that his hands were tied
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behind his back and bound.
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She says, quote, I remember screaming they murdered him.
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I took off running down the hall and it's literally a movie.
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The hall just kept getting longer, end quote.
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The police are immediately called at 1126 AM and they begin to process the scene.
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There were no signs of forced entry at the home.
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Police believe that Jim had been dead for some time when Katherine found him.
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Police are able to collect DNA from the crime scene and are hopeful that this will lead
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to a quick arrest.
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Police also notice that Jim's newly purchased 2004 Dodge Ram pickup truck was missing from
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his home.
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Pretty quickly, the county sheriff requests that the state police take the case over.
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As state police take the case over, they're able to locate his truck just before midnight.
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It was abandoned near Taylorsville Road.
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The vehicle was tucked behind some office buildings and it was about five miles from
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his house.
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Over the next few days, during the course of the investigation, police also discovered
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that Jim's credit card had been used the night of his murder at a fifth and third bank
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that was near his home.
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Police will release a really fuzzy picture from the surveillance footage that night.
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Police mentioned that at some point earlier during routine maintenance of the ATM, the
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camera lens had been placed back wrong on the machine, so it really is a difficult image
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to make out.
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You are able to see that a person is sitting in a truck and the police say that this is
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Jim's truck.
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Investigators also found it odd in the ATM choice, quote, his house is way out in the
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country and instead of going to any ATM, they drove from his house all the way across town
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to his ATM.
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I mean, you can go to any ATM and withdraw money, but they went to his, end quote.
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Investigators do not believe that this was a random act of violence.
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Detective Napier says, quote, we think that the person or persons sought him out specifically.
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We don't think that this was a random act of violence that could have been anybody.
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We think that they specifically sought after James Duckett, end quote.
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On Friday, November 4th, just four days after he was found murdered, Jim is laid to rest.
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Over the next several weeks, the family will hold several press conferences to help keep
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Jim's case in the media.
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However, the case will slowly fall out of circulation, but the next update that I could
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find comes in November of 2010.
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And this is when the family holds a candlelight vigil at Jim's home church to help raise
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awareness about his case and to get it back into the news.
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The service was packed with family, friends, and veterans that wanted to honor Jim's
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memory and keep the spotlight on his case.
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In February of 2011, so it's been about two and a half years since the murder, police
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create a deck of cards of cold cases to have for sale in the prison system.
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We've talked about this before in other cases, but this is typically used as a tool in investigations
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where they'll create a card deck of cold cases or missing people and then put them for sale
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within the prison system in hopes that a jailhouse informant will come forward.
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Included in this deck of cards is Jim's case.
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According to his sister, Katherine, the case is anything but cold.
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Katherine still talks to the police once a week about her brother's case.
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She says, quote, I've been told that my relationship with the police isn't typical, but I told
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them they're underpaid, overworked and understaffed.
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So anything I can do to push his case politically because of the budget cuts in the media or
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whatever, I'll do it to help because if I don't, they still have rapes, murders and
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other cases coming in and his case will get pushed back.
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They can't help it.
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End quote.
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Katerine also reveals in the media that in order for the case to be considered for the
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deck, police told her that the cases had to have DNA evidence and at least one possible
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suspect.
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Since Jim's case was included in the deck, I reason that those items are present in his
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case as well.
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State police say that they're still working on the case.
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Detective Harris says, quote, we're still processing evidence and the case is ongoing,
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but we feel like this could potentially get us information from people who have heard
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about the case or know more about it and it can be solved, end quote.
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In November of 2011, to mark the three year anniversary of his murder, Jim's family announced
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a $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.
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The next year in November of 2012, so now it's been four years, the Kentucky State
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Police announced that they're assigning two new detectives to the case and both police
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and family are hopeful that they'll be able to drum up some new leads.
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One of the new detectives, Detectives Wolcott, urges the public to come forward saying, quote,
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we really need the public's help.
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Somebody out there knows something and we need them to come forward.
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They can call us directly or they can call the post and leave a message, end quote.
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Police are desperate to catch the killer.
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Jim was killed, quote, in such an extremely violent manner, end quote, that the police
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believe the suspect could pose a risk to the public.
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It does seem like these two detectives work on the case throughout the next year because
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in November of 2013, the new investigators say, quote, we still have, well, they're
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not officially suspects, but we do have some persons of interest.
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They have been interviewed, but they have not been cleared.
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We just don't have enough evidence to make an arrest.
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Time will tell, end quote.
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During this time, the family has grown the reward for information from 10,000 to 25,000
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trying to tempt the public to tell police what they know.
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Due to the level of violence in the case, detectives are convinced that the killers
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would probably kill again.
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However, as of 2013, police acknowledged that they don't have any other cases that are
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similar enough in Jim's murder to be linked.
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In November of 2023, so it's been 15 years since Jim was murdered.
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His case is in the media, not only because of the significant anniversary, but also because
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a podcast comes out centering Jim's case.
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The podcast is called Next of Kin, the untold story of Jim Duckett.
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And just as a quick aside, I personally have not listened to this.
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I wanted to do my own research before I listened to another podcast, so I can't recommend
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it one way or the other.
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But if you want to learn more about Jim's case, that does sound like a really good resource.
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The local newspaper interviews Katherine, Jim's sister, and she believes that there
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is more than one killer involved.
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She says, quote, I do know it is more than one person.
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Logic says that.
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So if it's more than one person, someone has talked.
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They had friends in this county.
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Everyone in this county knows, end quote.
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When the local paper talked with the podcasters, they believe that the case was pointing towards
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retribution.
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However, Katherine doesn't believe that Jim would have been involved in anything that
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involved retribution.
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She says, quote, my brother was not involved in anything.
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And I know this for a fact, because police told me he was not involved in anything.
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So it's not just a sister defending her brother.
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The police said he was not doing anything.
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He did not deserve to be murdered, end quote.
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And that is the last major update that I could find about Jim Duckett's case.
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So with that, if you know anything about the murder of Jim Duckett in November of 2008,
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please call the Kentucky State Police at 502-227-2221.
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And the sources for the timeline today come from the Paducah Sun, the Centennial News,
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and the WHAS 11, Lexington Herald Leader.
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So that is the case of Jim Duckett.
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My first reaction to Jim's case was that people are really capable of anything.
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I know we cover a myriad of cases on our podcasts, but it seems more rare where you find a case
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where a man is murdered in such a vicious way.
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And I don't mean for that to sound gendered in any specific way.
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Yeah, I just had the awareness of people are capable of anything.
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Because I know you didn't physically describe him, but just going off of like a general
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sense, it would take a lot for someone to be able to subdue a grown man and do what
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they did to him.
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And I don't know, it really scared me of just being aware of living in a community, a small
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community, and that anyone is capable of anything.
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I don't know.
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I think that a loss like this and a murder like this, especially in a more rural place,
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is very, very shocking for the people that live there.
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And I don't know, those were my initial reactions.
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Another reaction or thought I had was I kept having to remind myself that this had happened
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in more recent years in 2008.
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And immediately I just thought about how there had to have been some sort of evidence or
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DNA or that my mind just thought this is solvable because of the timeframe that it happened
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in.
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And I guess I just had more, maybe more questions about that.
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Or if you could just speak on that further.
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Didn't know what the information was about that, about the crime scene, if there was
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DNA, if there was any sort of evidence.
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So I'll kick that over to you.
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So from my understanding, police do have DNA evidence from the crime scene.
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And initially they thought that it would be kind of a quick arrest because they did have
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DNA evidence.
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But here we are in 2024 and the case is still unsolved.
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I had a lot of the same reactions that you had to this case where the brutality of it
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really caught me off guard.
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And looking at pictures of Jim, he's a pretty big guy, tall guy, strong guy.
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So it was shocking to hear how gruesome this crime scene was.
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That's kind of the word that gets tossed around by police a lot is gruesome.
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And they don't really get into a lot of detail.
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But what we do know is horrifying.
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So I can only imagine what hasn't been revealed is really scary.
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It's scary to think that people would do that to somebody else, no matter what the situation
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is.
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It's scary to think about somebody being tortured.
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Yeah, it's very specific, sadistic, planned, tactile.
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I immediately went into solving mode, or at least my brain did.
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And to me, even in the vague description of what we have of the crime scene, I think more
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than one person would have had to be there.
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And I'm also interested in if there, I assume there was an autopsy done, I'm interested
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to know if there was a toxicology report and if he was subdued in any way.
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know, commit this very vicious, vile crime, you usually need another person there to accomplish
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it.
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And again, because of his just size, it seems like it would be more than one person.
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But with that said, again, my mind is saying it's either, you know, a random serial killer
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or murderers or planned and like this person or quite possibly people knew him, knew his
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routine, knew how to get into his house, all of those things.
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Yeah, I just I can't make sense of it.
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And my in in the confusion of trying to make sense of it, my heart just breaks for the
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family and his sister.
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There are certain things in this life that like you don't unsee sometimes and this is
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absolutely one of them.
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I'm just so sorry to her and that, you know, it's always someone who who finds the person
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and it just it should never be the family.
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And yeah, my heart really goes out, goes out to this family.
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Yeah, it's really heartbreaking to think about the burden that his sister has had to carry
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all these years being the person who found him and found him in the state that she did.
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Like, yeah, heartbreaking.
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Absolutely.
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His sister, though, does talk pretty openly that she does believe that it is multiple
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people for a lot of the reasons that you mentioned that it just is logical that it would be more
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than one person, which again, like she kind of mentioned, it's like that leaves that much
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more opportunity for somebody to talk or to mention something or to get drunk or to sleep
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talk like that opens up possibilities for that happening.
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It does feel like there is some knowledge like out in the community that might be known
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that's being like withheld to protect people for whatever reason.
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But I'm pretty hopeful that this case can get solved not only because we have DNA.
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So there's that link, but also that somebody will come forward.
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It's been over 15 years.
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There's a chance that people move away, you know, people die.
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So maybe that lets somebody like talk a little bit more freely because of a change in circumstances.
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So yeah, I'm really hopeful for this case that the family will get answers that they're
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looking for.
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One more thing I wanted to add, like you mentioned, you know, the burden that his sister, you
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know, has to bear in witnessing what she witnessed upon finding her brother.
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But with that, it really does seem like the family loves their brother, son, uncle, you
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know, whatever, just so much, even just with the initial amount alone that they had put
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up for, you know, more information, it was astounding to me.
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And even now I'm getting, you know, just like kind of chills and goosebumps.
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Like the love that they have for Jim is very clear.
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I hope that that love really shines through in this case.
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And that if people know something, just like you said, especially after, you know, maybe
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someone who was scaring them into staying quiet is gone now or is further away, like,
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please, please come forward.
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And I think more often, especially nowadays with as many, you know, true crime podcasts
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out there, especially podcasts that are focused on what we're trying to do here, which is
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really just, you know, solve them and bring answers and justice to the families that are
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fighting for these people.
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People talk, people really do talk as time moves forward.
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And I think that vocalizing his name and story here, you know, you said there was another
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podcast next of kin, correct?
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Yeah.
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Like the more just general population people are talking about him, it will stir up the
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community of where this murder took place.
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And that's exactly what we want it to do.
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And hopefully it stirs up some someone who's maybe feeling brave and saying something.
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I can't imagine that no one, that there isn't a person alive who doesn't know something
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with this case unless they're already gone.
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But besides that, like I have hope for this case and this family for it to be solved.
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So again, if you know anything about the murder of Jim Duckett in November of 2008, please
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call the Kentucky State Police at 502-227-2221.
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We'll be posting pictures of Jim on our Instagram as well as the image from the surveillance
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footage of the suspect driving Jim's truck.
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Again, it is a very blurry image.
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You can't really make out much, but maybe to somebody it will mean something.
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So we'll be posting that on our Instagram as well.
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