Kanawha County Prosecutor Mark Plants says he’s never been able to find out how murder victim Kathy Goble’s car ended up parked along Interstate 64 in Putnam County when she was murdered in eastern Kanawha County.
“That’s unanswered. I do not know the answer to that question,” Plants said Friday on MetroNews Talkline.
Goble was murdered by Kelley’s Mens Shop co-worker Charlie March in April 2010. March, 61, was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole. He strangled Goble in his Chesapeake mobile home and then dismembered her body and buried it in his backyard.
When Goble first disappeared, investigators were looking in the area where her car was found. It was parked westbound on Interstate 64 in Putnam County. There was a rag in the window.
“We don’t know, quite frankly, if she drove it there or if he drove it there,” Prosecutor Plants said. “And if he drove it there how did he get back to Charleston.”
Plants says March received the right sentence from Kanawha County Circuit Judge Duke Bloom, life in prison with no mercy.
“He got mercy back in the 50s when the legislature got rid of the death penalty,” Plants said.