Officers Continue Investigation Of Darwin Scott Knife-Slaying
Ashland Daily Independent, May 29, 1969
ASHLAND, KENTUCKY - Darwin (Scotty) Morell Scott, 64, of 612 Pollard Rd., Apt. 3, was found
stabbed to death Wednesday afternoon at his home.
Boyd County Coroner Russell Compton attributed death to a puncture of the
heart. He was reportedly stabbed 19 times.
Ashland Police Chief Lewis E. Mutters said, from all indications the large
kitchen knife used in the slaying belonged at the Scott apartment.
Mr. Compton announced that an autopsy performed in King's Daughters' Hospital
here revealed the time of death between 9:30 p.m. and midnight Tuesday.
Chief Mutters stated this morning that the investigation is being conducted
today so that the possibility of a motive could be obtained through leads from
neighbors.
Police were notified of the incident by a co-worker who stopped by Mr.
Scott's apartment to see why he had not reported to his job as a truck driver.
Chief Mutters said the body was found lying on the living room floor of a
two-room unit, located in the small apartment complex on the south side of
Pollard Road. "There were apparent signs of violence," noted Mr. Mutters,
"but there were no apparent signs of what you would call a violent struggle."
Ashland police who are continuing the investigation are Capt. Harold Rush,
Det. Sgt. Howard R. Gillum, and Sgt. Thomas Kelley.
Mr. Scott had be employed by Diniaco General Contractors for 2 1/2 years.
He was a former Catlettsburg resident and was the son of Walker Scott of Ashland
and the late Gladys Cline Scott.
He was born Jan. 30, 1905, in Pike County, Ky., and is survived by a son,
Tommy Scott of Kenova; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Hall of Bardstown and Mrs. Mae
Morlan of Long Beach, Calif.; and two grand-children.
The body has been taken to the Kilgore & Collier Funeral Home, Catlettsburg,
where funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Scott served time in the West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville for
a 1963 breaking and entering conviction in Huntington and later that same year
was sentenced to two years in prison on federal charges of aiding and abetting
in the forging and uttering of postal money order.
He was indicted on the federal charge by a grand jury at Beckley, W. Va.
The charges stemmed from money order thefts at post offices at Greenup and
Dewdrop, Ky., and Perintown in Clermont County, O.
