Edith Johnson

In the autumn of 1964, the life of 46-year-old Edith Johnson was tragically cut short. On October 18th, the white female was discovered strangled to death in Kentucky. Her case officially remains an unsolved murder, a cold file that has left lingering questions for decades.

While no individual was ever formally charged or arrested for her death, authorities have long considered her a suspected victim of a notorious figure in the region's criminal history, Frank J. Leaver. Leaver was a con ...