Unsolved Murders Near My Hometown

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THE FOLLOWING IS A SYNAPSIS OF 7 MURDERS NEAR MY HOMETOWN:

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Carol Bosch 

Date of death: March 4, 1981

Age 48

4th Grade Teacher at Meagher Elementary School

Crime scene: Town of Ulster/Hillside Acres/Kingston, NY

Mrs. Bosch was my 4th grade teacher. She was shot and killed inside her residence on the evening of March 4, 1981…(when I was in 5th grade.) I will never forget when I walked into school to find out the sad news the next morning. It was awful.

Basically, Mrs. Bosch was home alone that night. I am fairly certain that her house was on the market..For Sale sign in the yard. Police suspect she heard a noise in her garage and when she opened the door she was shot by an intruder. Mrs. Bosch was able to dial her telephone and dialed the operator. The operator then patched her to Kingston City Police. She requested an ambulance and stated she had been shot. Kingston Police then contacted State Police. When the State Police arrived on the scene she was found dead. 

I am unsure of any conclusions that the investigators have made regarding this case. Was it a robbery gone wrong? I don’t know.
What I DO know, from a close source, is that there were a handful of home break-ins in the Hillside Acres neighborhood around that time. The break-ins mysteriously stopped after the murder.

This case is still unsolved.

All of my Meagher School friends will never forget Mrs. Bosch. She was a wonderful teacher.

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Albert D. Barnhart, Jr.

Date of Death: December 6, 1987

Age 13

Crime scene: Port Ewen, NY

Albert was 13 years old at the time of his death. He was found in an area known to locals as 40 Bumps. It was a wooded area that some teens used as a hang out.

Albert was found about 300 feet from a burned out campfire at 40 Bumps. He was missing for a few weeks before being found. It was reported that he died with severe burns over 90 % of his body. 

Police definitely suspect this was a homicide. There is a lot of information regarding suspects (people who were with him that day) and their stories.. I will let you all google that information.

So far, nobody has been charged for causing his death.

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Linda Holgerson

Date of death: November 4, 2007

Age 57

Last seen: Kingston, NY

Location where body was found: Prattsville, NY

Linda Holgerson was developmentally and physically disabled. She went missing on October 19, 2007. She was last seen leaving The Bank of America branch on Broadway in Kingston. She was seen leaving the bank before getting into a white vehicle driven by someone else. 

Her body was then discovered 16 days later … On November 4th, 2007…. 50 miles away in Prattsville, NY. Her body was discovered just off Rt 23A. The autopsy ruled the death a homicide without giving out any details to the public.

3 dozen officers and investigators from State Police, City of Kingston Police, and Ulster County Sheriff’s Office worked on this case.

This case is still unsolved.

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Michael Kleiman

Date of death: July 25, 2008

Age 59

Crime scene: Town of Ulster/(East) Kingston, NY

A fire call had come in from a person across the Hudson River who reported black smoke coming from a wooded area in the distance. When the firefighters arrived on scene at about 2:45 in the afternoon, they made a gruesome discovery. They found a burning pick up truck way back on a makeshift road that was between two parallel roads in East Kingston (Between 1st Ave. and Rt 32) . They discovered there was a body burning in the back of that truck. It was later released that the body was decapitated and without hands.

Investigators used DNA to identify the body due to the condition of the remains. They had suspected it was Michael Kleiman because the truck was in his name. 

Here is some information about Michael Kleiman. He lived in Kerhonkson, NY. He worked for a children’s mentally ill facility in WestChester County, NY. Also, Michael was gay and he lived a quiet lifestyle. He did not use much technology. This makes it even harder to solve this case because investigators have no cell phone or computers to use to track Michael’s activities.

The police have released some information to the public, over time, to help them solve the crime. Most recently they released a photo of a missing ring that was on Michael’s hand hoping someone would recognize it.

This case is still unsolved.

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JOHN DOE CASE FROM 1970 IN WEST SAUGERTIES, NY

John Doe

Date body discovered: February 1, 1970

Location of body when discovered: West Saugerties, NY

State Police, 50 years later, are still working on putting a name to a man whose body was found within a few days of his death.

On February 1, 1970 ….John Doe’s body was found – dumped – 50 feet down a steep embankment below Platte Cove Rd. in West Saugerties. He was shot in the back of the head.

Check out what this guy had on !!! He was dressed in layers.

He was wearing a raincoat topped over a green pinstriped suit… Topped over a pair of pajamas. He had on black dress shoes covered with those rubber overshoes that people put on in the rain. He had on a silk tie with the label “Playboy.” He had on a very fancy watch, a gold ring, and a fake ruby ring. He also had $156 in his pocket. Much of the brands of clothing he was wearing was Brazilian. Even the bullet that he was shot with was from a Brazilian brand of bullets (say that 10 times fast).. 🙂

Word on the street is .. Back at that time, there were members of the mob who owned homes at the top of Platte Cove Rd. Perhaps it was mob related.

Still, no one has come forward to identify John Doe.
He is currently buried in the Blue Mountain Cemetery in West Saugerties. 

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So, I was thinking of 2 more cases that were actually considered solved… But, they do not have closure for the families.

1. Nicole Palmer. Age 24. (Kingston, NY) Police know who killed Nicole, but the suspect is already in prison for life and he was never convicted of murdering Nicole. He was convicted of killing young Rickel Knox back in 1995. I will let you google the details of Nicole’s death. It was gruesome. Her family has seen so much tragedy.. Even beyond Nicole’s passing. I only wish they would have had closure. I remember Nicole from Meagher School. Her fun personality and her beautiful smile is what I recall the most. We would sometimes walk the same route home from school and that is how I will always remember her.
2. Mrs. Yim L. Eng. Age 43. (Hurley, NY) This is disturbing and sad. Basically, she was kidnapped by employees of her husband’s restaurant from her home in Hurley. She was never to be seen again. There was ransom money involved.. . People were arrested and charged, but Mrs. Eng has never been found. See article and link below …

Also- Read this legal info about the Eng case … (click link)
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/594/248/1900365/

Please feel free to drop a comment below about your memory of these cases or if you found this post interesting, etc. Thanks !