Karen Sue Hodella, 44, was killed in October 2002 while visiting Clarksville, Indiana. A beautician from Port Orange, Florida, her badly decomposed body was found floating in the Ohio River near Clarksville on January 7, 2003, and identified by dental records. The case remained unsolved for years.

In April 2012, William Clyde Gibson, already in custody for another murder, confessed to Hodella’s killing. He said he met her at a Jeffersonville bar on October 10, 2002, and that an argument over prescription medication at an apartment complex in New Albany escalated. Gibson admitted punching Hodella and repeatedly stabbing her in the throat with a pocket knife, then dumping her body in Clarksville. He reportedly had a tattoo of a knife with the date 10-10-02.

In March 2014 Gibson pleaded guilty in Hodella’s death and received a 65-year sentence. Anyone who knew Karen or has information about her in 2002 is asked to come forward.