Sidetracked: The Murder of Anna Kithcart
My special guest tonight is author Richard T. Cahill who's here to discuss his book about the senseless murder of Anna Kithcart detailed in his book Sidetracked: The Betrayal and Murder of Anna Kithcart
As the sun rises over the quiet city of Kingston, New York on July 12, 1988, a local transient discovers the remains of 19-year-old Anna Kithcart. She was strangled and beaten to death, with the letters “KKK” carved into her thighs.
While her heartbroken family mourns, and the police work around the clock to uncover the truth, the investigation is complicated by the entrance of the Reverend Al Sharpton who insists that a racist killer is responsible. As investigators struggle to find evidence, Sharpton and his supporters denounce the entire area as a “Klan den” and make public pronouncements that a “racist cult” is operating throughout the area.
Then, as if things can’t get any worse, the transient who found the body confesses to an unspeakable sexual act against the corpse. Almost immediately after the media reports his alleged depravity, he changes his story and accuses the police of making him a patsy and a scapegoat. To add to the expanding circus, he tells the world he is really an undercover agent for the CIA, FBI, and Interpol.
Only solving the crime can quell the chaos that threatens to ignite a powder keg of racial tension and get past the rumors to catch the real killer. But can investigators overcome the outside forces that repeatedly sidetrack their efforts? Find out in this great new true crime from Richard T. Cahill, the author of HAUPTMANN’S LADDER.
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that Tawana Brawley was not telling the truth and that Reverend Sharpton knew it was all a farce. So the public is just starting to turn and starting to think, you know, this may not be what it seems to be.
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And that brings us to July of 1988. On that very morning in Kingston, there was a, well, I don't use a politically incorrect term, a bum who was walking through that back area I was describing by before.
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His name was Kiernan. Kiernan wasn't a bad guy. He had some mental issues and he often would walk those tracks, which ran to a different set of railroad tracks that are still used today. And he would follow them.
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And they eventually went by another wooded area where he would sleep out underneath the stars at night. He had his issues.
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So he was walking back to where he lived and he saw what he thought described was either what he called a love doll or a mannequin.
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