Three-year-old Cynthia Elaine Coats, a white female, was found dead in a barn in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 6, 1972. Her mother, Virginia McGinnis, discovered the body and the death was initially ruled an accident.

Years later investigators reopened the case after McGinnis’s subsequent criminal history, which included financial fraud, suspected arson, and ultimately a conviction for the 1987 murder of Deana Wild. That later conviction prompted authorities to reclassify Cynthia’s 1972 death as a homicide.

Cynthia’s death remains a cold case tied to the troubling later life of the woman who found her. Does anyone have memories or information about the family, the barn, or the investigation in Louisville in the early 1970s?