Kathleen left school about 2:40 p.m. and was last seen walking down the paved path through a wooded area that she walked every day to her home, about half a mile from the school. She never arrived home and was reported missing. Her body was found about 3:30 a.m. the next morning in a thick swath of woods between the path and the school’s athletic fields. She had been raped and strangled.