The Carol Hutto Case
On December 13, 1976, sixteen year old Carol Hutto left her Largo Florida home saying she was running to the store and would be back soon. In reality she was going to meet a boy.... James Kuenn. The following day her body was found in a pond, half dressed and weighed down, just a mile from her home. The community was devastated and while James Kuenn was quickly on the police radar, little could be proven. As so many cases do, this one went cold. Investigators decided to reopen the case in 1994. It was learned that Kuenn was now a U.S. Navy Petty Officer and soon the NCIS were involved. In July of 1998 he was talked to again and it did not take long before he started telling a story, one that would change later, but a story none the less. Kuenn would first say that he and Carol had met at a nearby abandoned house. He claimed they talked, kissed and had sex. He claimed that after they had had consensual sex that they were involved in "horseplay" i...