A college student is found murdered at Yudicki Farm In the fall of 1972, the life of a promising young White/Caucasian woman, Kathleen Randall, a female aged 18, was tragically cut short, leaving behind a mystery that has endured for decades. A freshman at Boston University, Randall was last seen on September 13, 1972, after attending a biology class. For reasons that remain unclear, her disappearance from her dormitory went unnoticed for nearly a week until her roommate reported her missing on September 19.
The search for the young student would come to a grim conclusion.
On October 1, 1972, a group of hunters made a startling discovery in a wooded area at Yudicki Farm off Route 111-A in Nashua, New Hampshire. They found the nude and decomposed body of Kathleen Randall. Due to the advanced state of decomposition, the medical examiner was unable to determine a precise cause of death. However, the circumstances in which she was found strongly suggested foul play, and her death was officially classified as a homicide.
The investigation into Kathleen Randall's murder was fraught with difficulties from the start, and as the years turned into decades, the path to justice grew colder. A significant blow to the case came in the 1980s when crucial physical evidence was destroyed by the Nashua Police Department. This critical error was not discovered until reviews of the case in 2001 and again in 2015. The reasons behind the evidence destruction remain unknown, and due to the statute of limitations, it is unlikely anyone will be held accountable for it.
During the period of Randall's murder, a series of killings of young women had plagued the Boston area. In December 1972, a Boston-area pimp named Anthony J. Jackson was arrested and later convicted for three of those murders, and he was a suspect in several others. Despite some similarities in the cases, no definitive evidence ever linked Jackson to Randall's death. He reportedly denied any involvement, telling an associate, "The one from New Hampshire... isn't mine." To this day, Kathleen Randall's murder remains unsolved, with no arrests ever made and no suspects officially named. The destruction of evidence has left her family without closure and investigators with few avenues to pursue.
