Kentucky State Police Post 4 detectives along with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office are conducting a murder investigation on missing four year old, Serenity McKinney.
On February 2, Kentucky State Police was contacted by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office requesting assistance with an investigation of a missing person case of a four-year old female that had last been seen in Dec. 2020.
Detectives located the body of the four year-old in a wooded area near the 1300 block of Skyview Road in West Point near the Jefferson-Bullitt County line around 2 p.m. on Friday, February 18.
The victim’s body was taken by the Bullitt County Coroner’s Office to the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office in Louisville for an autopsy scheduled for Saturday morning.
Kentucky State Police, along with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and the Kentucky Attorney General’s office, charged Serenity’s mother, 21 year-old Catherine McKinney of Shepherdsville, and her boy friend, 26 year-old Dakota Hill also of Shepherdsville, with murder and abuse of a corpse.
At the time both McKinney and Hill were in custody at Shelby County Detention Center after being charged for custodial interference by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. McKinney and Hill had been arrested earlier this month in Kansas on the above charges before being extradited back to Kentucky.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, Kentucky Attorney General’s Office, U.S. Secret Service, Louisville Metro Police Department, Bullitt County Coroner’s Office, Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office, Radcliff Police Department, Radcliff Fire Department, Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife, and the Jefferson County Search Dog Association all assisted the Kentucky State Policd with the investigation. The case remains under investigation by Kentucky State Police Post 4 detectives.
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