
Parkhurst was never charged with the death. The newspaper reported Parkhurst walked into the police station in 2013 after two interviews by the investigators and confessed. The newspaper reported that police examined his Buick in 1968 and found front-end damage that Parkhurst attributed to hitting a concrete post, but police never followed through. After a review, the investigators found that Parkhurst had been a suspect in 1968. A retired Fulton police investigator had posted information about the unsolved death on Facebook that resulted in a tip, and the case was reopened.

Fulton police had reopened the investigation into the little girl’s death a year earlier.

The Post-Standard in Syracuse, New York, published a series of articles about the case in 2014.
