Mystery Location No. 307: June 19, 2022

I think I've finally figured this one out and I can't believe it took me this long. I think this is 154 Honeysuckle Drive, Pikeville, Kentucky, the house where Mark Putnam, known as the FBI Killer, lived while he was assigned to the Pikeville office. He had an affair with Susan Smith, a local woman, who was an informant. After he was transferred from Pikeville to Miami, she would call him and accuse him of abandoning her and would call him Mr. Miami Vice.

In June of 1989, he had to return to Kentucky to testify in a case and another agent got Susan a room at the same motel, where Putnam was staying. One night when they were sitting in the car talking, he strangled her to death. He put her body in the trunk of the car and it was there when he drove to Lexington the next day to testify. The next night he drove out to a remote location just outside of Pikeville and threw her body into a ravine.