Murder on Clarktown Road: Who Killed Lucinda Strange?

Kentucky Gone Cold

On March 25, 1990, during her daily walk, Lucinda Strange was murdered just a few hundred feet from her home. Law enforcement had no suspects, no motive, no leads- until just a few months later and a few miles away a battered 15 year old girl walked out of the woods with a story of survival that few could believe. The victim said she had been abducted, chained to a tree, repeatedly raped and kept prisoner for nearly three weeks at a remote campsite in the woods by two men. In a moment of opportunity, the young girl said she had shot and killed her captor and that he could be found dead in his bed at the camp. When police raided the camp they found the man and nearby a diary that detailed a trail of grisly crimes committed by the dead man- Phillip Clopton and his friend...James Ray Cable. The diary provided law enforcement a hand drawn map where they located a severed arm from another teenage victim- and information linking James Ray Cable to series of unsolved homicides across the state. Decades later, DNA testing would confirm that James Ray Cable killed at least five Kentucky women. But..how are these men connected to the murder of Lucinda Strange? It's been decades and police are still waiting for information to crack this cold case. #coldcase #kygonecold #bardstown