Convicted of killing 9 year old Kathleen McLaughlin February 1955.
HOW HE KILLED GIRL AGED 9
Had to Kill Her So She Wouldn't Tell Her Mother
DETROIT, Feb 18 - "I had to kill her- so she would't tell her mother."
Calm and dry eyed, 16 year old Floyd Diamond told state police today in gruesome detail how he stabbed and killed pretty 9-year-old Kathleen (Kathy) McLaughlin last night and left her body in an icy pond.
Oakland County prosecutor Fred C. Ziem said the youth's story to state authorities was almost exactly as he had told it to him three hours earlier after the girls distraught father lifted the battered body from the freezing waters.
The Michigan Parole Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 to consider the possible parole of Floyd Diamond, #089977. It will be held at 9:00 a.m. at the Handlon Training Center; Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan.
Floyd Diamond is serving a Life sentence for the crime of Second Degree Murder. He was sentenced on June 20, 1955 out of Oakland County.
