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Dead Alabama Man Suspected Kentucky Cold Case

By The Associated Press

A convicted felon from Pine Apple, AL has been identified as a suspect in the 1983 murder of a Kentucky teen. Investigators say he injected his victims with drugs to kill them. Dead Alabama Man Suspected Kentucky Cold Case

Published: Fri, December 05, 2008 - 9:49 am Last Updated: Fri, December 05, 2008 - 9:54 am

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Ann Gotlib was 12 when she vanished while
riding her bike near a suburban mall in 1983, a disappearance that
rocked the city and made a generation of children think twice
before venturing out alone.
Police announced Thursday that they have a suspect in the case
-- a dead felon twice convicted of abducting girls and injecting
them with drugs in Alabama.
Police believe Greg Lewis Oakley Jr. killed Ann by injecting her
with an overdose of the painkiller Talwin.
She was last seen June 1, 1983, at the Bashford Manor Mall.
At a news conference Thursday, police said interviews, including
with a former cellmate of Oakley's and a former girlfriend, point
to him as the person responsible for Ann's disappearance. Oakley
was twice convicted in Alabama -- in 1979 and 1981 -- for abducting
13-year-old girls and injecting them with drugs.
Oakley grew up in Pine Apple, Ala., and had a doctorate in
veterinary medicine from Auburn University. He moved to Louisville
in 1982 and took a job as a USDA meat inspector.
Oakley was sentenced to prison in Kentucky for the 1984
abduction of a 13-year-old girl from her home near the mall.
Louisville Police Maj. Dave Wood, who oversees the major crimes
unit, said that case was similar to Gotlib's. Oakley received a
medical release from prison in June 2002, returned to Alabama and
died in October of that year.