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Continue reading →: The Co-Ed, the Butcher Knife, and the 50-Year Silence:Unraveling the Pauline Storment MysteryPauline Storment, a 27-year-old University of Arkansas sophomore, was walking home from the library. She was the picture of diligent student life: a divorcee who balanced her studies with two part-time jobs at the ROTC office and the Malco Theatre. To the witnesses who saw her that night, she was…
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Continue reading →: Looking back, The Jack Butler ConfessionA few months after Pauline Storment’s murder Jack Butler would walk into the Fayetteville police station and confess to the murder of Pauline. Now, police took his statement but no charges were ever brought and at the time based on a 1980s newspaper interview with a police officer who had…
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Continue reading →: Stephen Wayne Cooper and the Storment InvestigationIn 1973, a Fayetteville, Arkansas native Stephen Wayne Cooper killed Ronald Johnson on June 10th near Yarnell, Arizona. Yet, two years earlier on April 18th he would be interviewed by R.D. Arnold and Bud Dennis of the Fayetteville PD in connection to the April 12th, 1971, Pauline Storment murder when…
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Continue reading →: Has A New Lead Emerged!
Unmasking a Shadow: Could a Drifter Be the Key to Pauline’s 54-Year-Old Murder? For over five decades, the murder of Pauline has remained a chilling enigma, a cold case that has haunted the collective memory of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Countless theories have been whispered, leads followed, and hopes dashed. But what…
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Continue reading →: Cruel & Inhuman Treatment?My name is Lance J. Gosnell, and ever since I began the journey to unravel the mystery surrounding the unsolved 1971 murder of my maternal grandfather’s cousin, Pauline Francis Storment, I’ve uncovered more than I ever imagined. One thought continues to haunt me: if the internet had existed back then,…
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Continue reading →: Was Mike hiding something?
The Coed’s Last Scream and the Friend’s First Step: Revisiting a Suspicious Timeline in a 50-Year-Old Murder Introduction: The Unsettling Silence of a 50-Year-Old Case On the night of April 12, 1971, the sense of peace in Fayetteville, Arkansas, was shattered by a scream. Pauline Storment, a 27-year-old University of…
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Continue reading →: Under the Waning Moon – Pauline’s Story
On April 12, 1971, at approximately 9:30 PM, the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville became the scene of a fatal attack on Pauline Storment, a 27-year-old student. The events leading to her death unfolded rapidly, drawing in multiple witnesses who provided statements to investigators. Pat Murphy, Pauline Storment’s roommate,…
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Continue reading →: Sadly, Breaking – Case Closed!
As of mid-May, the agency had 117 unsolved murder cases under its purview. The oldest was Pauline Storment, a 27-year-old student at the University of Arkansas. She was stabbed to death blocks away from the campus on the night of April 12, 1971. After a review earlier this year by…
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Continue reading →: It’s confirmed. A divorce was discovered.
After searching and searching for a divorce record for Pauline Storment and the ex-husband she was deathly afraid of, I was able to find proof. It turns out, on July 13, 1967, a petition for divorce was filed in Memphis, Tennessee, as published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar.
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Continue reading →: Composit Sketch Comparisons
We don’t know who really killed Pauline Storment, but we do know Wallace Peter Kunkle was a suspect, and while Eddie Rush never was officially one, he did attempt to kill Andrea Jones a month after Pauline’s murder. My question is, who looks more like the composit sketch?
Hello,
I’m Lance
Why do I care?
It’s because my maternal grandfather’s cousin was Pauline Storment and I have seen everyone who knew her pass on without ever learning the truth.
So, that is why this site is dedicated to exposing the hidden truths that have held her tragic murder in the shadows for all these years.
We may never ger the complete picture of that night but I will go to my grave knowing I did everything to honor her memory and untangle the web of confusion that has engulfed this case for half a century and counting.
