$10,000 Reward – Cut Throat Murder
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Jim Duckett
CrimePAY$ $10,000 Murder Reward TipLine 1-888-755-TIPS (8477)
The brutal attack happened in November, 2008.
Jim Duckett’s body was found a day later, tied to a chair in his Shelbyville, KY home, his throat slit. His sister who found him spoke with CrimePAY$ about her family’s push to bring his killers to justice.
“This is unimaginable. This is not something I shouldn’t be sitting here three years later doing an interview. I should be with my brother. I should not be trying to figure out who killed my brother, he should have never been murdered,” said Katherine Nichols.
The brutality of the attack is forever burned into her mind. On November 10th, 2008, she’d gone to her brother’s Shelbyville home to check on him after he didn’t show up to church and phone calls to him weren’t returned.
“I was on the phone with my sister, and I’m looking at my brother and the surroundings and you try to filter it and I’m trying to process what I’m looking at and my sister could tell and she kept saying tell me,” remembered Nichols.
Her younger brother’s body was left there, his hands tied to a chair tipped over in his own bathroom. He’d been stabbed multiple times. His throat was slit.
His truck was stolen but recovered later in the day. Surveillance video from the Shelbyville Fifth Third Bank shows someone using Duckett’s ATM card, but so far police have not made any arrests.
“It’s like the whole world spins and you’re standing there and it literally was spinning. I guess it hasn’t stopped,” said Nichols.
The family remembers Duckett as a man who was a people pleaser, with a great sense of humor. He was a Doss High graduate, a father and an army veteran
She says she hasn’t really grieved the loss because she’s been so busy hunting for justice.
“As small as this town is, there’s no way there’s no way someone doesn’t know something,” she said.
Recently she and her family are announcing a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction, and hopefully, some peace for those left behind.
“Somebody knows and they’re sitting there and they’re not helping. This town doesn’t deserve this. My brother doesn’t deserve this, and this family doesn’t deserve this,” she said.
Nichols tells us her father passed away before her brother was murdered, and if he were still alive, her dad would stop at nothing for justice. That’s the reason that ten thousand dollars is coming from his estate, which was settled just recently.
CrimePAY$ $10,000 Murder Reward TipLine 1-888-755-TIPS (8477)
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