She was hitchhiking home to Ben Lomond from a party in Boulder Creek about 2:30 a.m. when the killer picked up her. Police said he then drove her to his Ben Lomond house where he raped, sodomized and then suffocated her. A tourist who stopped to admire the scenery on Skyline Boulevard just north of Alpine Road found her body around noon that same day. Her corpse had been tossed down a roadside embankment.
On Aug. 15 (2012) San Mateo County Sheriff's Office detectives traveled to Placerville and interviewed a 49-year-old convicted rapist. At the close of their interrogation of John William Kelley, police clicked handcuffs around his wrists and took him into custody for the Dec. 6, 1986, murder of Annette Kulovitz, who at the time of her death went by her stepfather's last name of Thur.
Police say DNA evidence led them to Kelley, who is scheduled to be back in court Tuesday...