Unsolved Mysteries: The Murder and Corruption of Keddie Cabin
How an Alleged Police Cover-Up May Have Allowed Quadruple Killers to Walk Free for 40 Years
Cabin 28. An innocent two words. A note on a sign, perhaps. A statement on a door. Yet to the small rural community of Keddie in Northern California, it is two words that bring back memories of revulsion and horror, ones that many would like to forget. The cabin is the scene of one of the most brutal murders in American history, with three people mercilessly slain within its walls and a fourth, a twelve-year-old girl, being seemingly kidnapped. With confessions and suspects in abundance, why has the case remained officially unsolved for forty years?
The reasons lead us down a dark path in the California backwoods, with allegations surrounding drugs, child abuse and police corruption that led to the downfall of an entire community in a vacuum of suspicion, paranoia and revulsion. One of the darkest tales in the history of American crime, the consequences of what happened one horrific night in 1981 continues to spread its evil tentacles into the present, with investigations still ongoing to bring some measure of closure and justice to all those affected.
