At approximately 7:45pm on Saturday, November 29th, 1969, Nora Kathylene “Kathy” Jones left her house at 304 Lutie Street to walk to the Roller Drome skating rink on Thompson Lane with her brand new (to her) roller skates. She was supposed to call her mother, Nora Jones, for a ride when she was ready to come home. When Nora hadn’t heard from Kathy by 11:00pm, she began to worry and went to the skating rink looking for her. When she realized it had closed at 10:00pm she went home and called the police.
By Monday, December 1st, 1969, a Youth Aid Officer was assigned to the missing person case and members of the Civil Defense Office were brought in to aid in the search efforts. It was members of this Civil Defense Unit that discovered Kathy’s body around noon on Tuesday, December 2nd, 1969 in the tall grass of an empty lot located at 2806 Grandview which was behind the Krispy Kreme Donut Shop. Kathy had been raped, stabbed, and ultimately died from suffocation caused by one of her socks that had been put in her mouth as part of a gag. It was estimated that she had been dead for approximately 24 hours. Kathy Jones was 12 years old at the time of her death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Kathy Jones, please contact the Cold Case Homicide Unit at MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov
You can also call the Nashville Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Division anonymously at 615-742-7463
We feel it is important to put a face to the name. If you have a photograph you would like to submit to be posted (as an addition or substitution) please email: MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov