True Crime

Case #6: Unexplained Death, Kurt Sova

On October 28, 1981, three young boys in Newburgh Heights, Ohio would make a discovery that would change their lives forever. Lying in a ravine that they were exploring was a dead body. The body was later identified as 17-year-old Kurt Sova. An autopsy revealed Kurt died no more than a day and a half before his body was discovered. However, his parents reported the boy missing five days earlier. Kurt lived in a quiet neighborhood and was the youngest of four boys. Kurt left the house on Friday around Noon meeting up with a friend that he would later accompany to a party. When Kurt failed to return that night his mother Dorothy immediately knew something was wrong. The next morning there was still no sign of Kurt. His parents started to call his friends and his father searched the neighborhood. Soon Sunday rolled around and Kurt still had not shown up. That morning his parents reported him missing and Dorothy put flyers around the neighborhood hoping for any and all information on her son's whereabouts. Sunday afternoon Dorothy would learn that her son attended a party friday night at a duplex less than two miles away from where the Sova's lived. This party was thrown by a girl named Susan who at first denied that Kurt was there and the existence of the party. However, after Dorothy contacted Susan for a second time she admitted to the party and saw Kurt there. Susan also claimed that Kurt was heavily drunk which to anyone who knew Kurt was way out of character for him. Five days after the party Kurt's body was found in the ravine 500 yards away from Susan's duplex. Despite searching for clues authorities were only able to find Kurt's left shoe and his right one has still yet to be found. An autopsy was unable to determine the cause of death. Three months after discovering Kurt the mystery intensified. The body of Eugene Kvet, a boy Kurt used to know, was found in a ravine just two and a half miles away from where Kurt was found. Both boys were missing for days before their bodies were discovered and were both missing their right shoe. This case is still open and as I am writing this today marks the 41st anniversary of Kurt's death. Right now authorities rule both deaths as accidental but the questions still remain where was Kurt Sova during the five days he was missing? How did he die and where was he killed?