The Murder of Nancy Eagleson (1960)
On the evening of Nov. 13, 1960, 14-year-old Nancy Eagleson was abducted and murdered while walking home with her younger sister on Flatrock Drive in Paulding. Her killing was never solved, and the case remains open — including a 2022 exhumation that recovered new physical evidence.
This entry is a running list of sources covering the case, not a transcription or summary of any of them. It will grow as more turn up; what’s here so far is a small fraction of the coverage this case has gotten over the decades.
Sources
- “Wearing her first pair of heels, she never made it home. Why there’s new life in a 60-year cold case” — Brian Dugger, WTOL, Jan. 30, 2023 (part 1 of 3; exact article URL not yet confirmed)
- “11 Investigates: Missteps plague hunt for 14-year-old’s killer” — Brian Dugger, WTOL, Feb. 1, 2023 (part 2 of 3)
- “A town divided: 62 years after the killing of Nancy Eagleson, Paulding residents have many suspects, but no closure” — Brian Dugger, WTOL, Feb. 2, 2023 (part 3 of 3)
- WTOL video coverage — title unconfirmed, possibly “Autopsy uncovers new evidence in 1960 killing of Nancy Eagleson”
- Case file on uncovered.com — a cold-case database that, per the WTOL reporting above, digitized the full Eagleson case file, and itself indexes 140+ sources spanning the original 1960 wire coverage through 2024 (page contents otherwise not summarized here; site blocked our automated fetch)
- “11 Investigates: Former Paulding resident says alleged abuse by deputy could be clue in 1960 Nancy Eagleson murder” — Brian Dugger, WTOL, Sept. 1, 2023
See also: Paulding County Murders by Bennett Calvert, a book covering Paulding County murder cases generally.