WESTERN KY (12/20/11)—The Kentucky State Police (KSP) investigate criminal activity across the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky, and, in many instances, the information provided by individual citizens allows law enforcement officials to make important breakthroughs in difficult cases.
With this in mind, members of the KSP Post 16 in Henderson, KY are requesting help from the public in resolving the nearly 33-year-old murder investigation of James Anthony Galloway.
Following a missing persons report filed during the earlier half of February, 1979, KSP investigators and local law enforcement officials conducted a broad-scale search for Mr. Galloway, but have yet to locate his body. Mr. Galloway was 38 years-old at the time of disappearance.
Though Mr. Galloway is still missing, investigators with the KSP report that a paper towel containing some disturbing and/or graphic evidence was located within the victim’s abandoned pickup truck on February 15th, 1979.
As the report reads, “Wrapped inside the towel was a piece of human bone covered in blood. The blood was later determined to be the same type as the victim.”
With this evidence, it's strongly suspected that Mr. Galloway met with foul play.
If you or anyone you know have any information regarding this case, please contact case officers Sgt. Jackie Carver or Lt. Sean McKinney with the Kentucky State Police Post 16 in Henderson, KY at (270) 826-3312. You may also contact the officers via email at
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. As always, anonymous calls are welcomed.
If you would like to report more information regarding this case, please fill out the Cold Case form at the following link: http://www.kentuckystatepolice.org/cold_case/post16coldcase8.php.
However, if you need to report information that is of an emergency nature, please contact the Kentucky State Police toll free at 1-800-222-5555 (in the state of Kentucky only) or contact your local police/sheriff department at 9-1-1.
Information provided by the Kentucky State Police
Posted by Luke Short—SurfKY News
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