On December 17, 1962, the life of a 22-year-old Caucasian stewardess named Donna Kimmey was tragically cut short. Her body was discovered in Kenner, Louisiana, where it was determined she had been strangled. The investigation into her death would eventually lead authorities to consider a man with a history of violence against women, Charles Edward Terry.
Terry, a native of Maine, was a known figure to law enforcement, having been previously diagnosed as a psychopath with a sexual sadism
disorder. His name became linked to Kimmey's case when, during an interrogation for another crime, he admitted to being in the New Orleans area in December of 1962, the same time and general location of Kimmey's murder.
While he was a strong suspect in the strangling of Donna Kimmey, it was another brutal act that would ultimately lead to his incarceration. Terry was convicted for the 1963 murder of Zenovia Clegg in New York. Though he was never formally charged with Donna Kimmey's death, his confession of being in the vicinity, coupled with his violent history and subsequent murder conviction, left him as the primary and most likely suspect in her unsolved murder.
