TJo+E NEWS-ENTERPRISE 11m SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012

DEATH S Court: State not liable "" Bobby Carlile Dunaway Mary Catherine Mulhall Willmoth in informant's slaying Bobby Carlile Dunaway, 82, retired engineer. died Mary Catherine Mulhall WilhnOlh, 95, of Elizabeth· By BREIT HARKOUQ.UERE May 4, 2012, at Sljoseph Hospital in Lexington. to ... 'I1, pass<.od away peacefully on Thunday May 3, 2012. The A._.. ,...t I~ Mr. Dunaway WM born May 25, 1929, to the late She was born in SI. john on Sept. 22, 1917. She mar· Albert CMler and Roberta Young Dun­ ried David Lollg Wmmoth Sr. injWle 1939 and for 30 LOUlSVI.ll.E - Police informant Le Bron Gai­ away. I-Ie retired from Nolin RECC after years they owned and operated Hardin County Imple­ ther got into a car for a conlrolled drug buy in j uly 20 years, where he was manager of oper­ ment Co. in Elizabethtown. She was a longtime member 1996 with a man named J ason Noel. Gaither had ations and engi neering and served in the ofSt.james Catholic Chureh and very active in the com· been unaware someone ti pped Noel 10 his role M a U,S. Air Force during the &:>rean War for munitYa! a Realtor. police informant as the two drove from Taylorsville to four yean. Bobby was a lifelong member She was preceded in death by her husband, David Cuey County. of the U K Alumni Association, the AmCf'­ Long WilLnoth Sr.; her parents, Nell French and Albert That's where police laler found Gaither's body at­ ican Legion, Elizabethtown Industrial Mulhall; her sisler, Lucy Thomas; and brothers joseph, ler he was tortured, stabbed, beaten and killed. Foundation, was a Rotary member in \;~~,..U Charles and Lawrence Mulhall. Even though Gaither died while working for Ken­ E1i7.abe!htown and served as a chairman DuNAWAY She ...·as the loying mother of David 1... (Hanni) Will­ tucky State Police, his family cannot collect any dam­ of planning and zoning for eight years. moth jr. of }-:li7.abe!h town, Ann (Roben Stettner) Will· ages from the Kentucky j ustice Wid Public Safety Surviving relativcs includehi~ loving wife of 54 years. moth of Atlanta, Kay Willmolh of Chicago and Mark Cabinet or troopers, the Kenlucky Court of Appeals Sally Martin Dunaway; IWO children. Clay Carlile Dun­ (Lynda Clark) Will moth of Louisville; proud grandmolh· nlled Friday. The Kentucky Board of Claims award­ away of Lexington and Kru-en A l exan d ~r D l~ naway ,of er of David (Carol) Wil hllolh I II of Lexillb'ion. jana ed Gaither's family $168,000. Franklin Circuit judge New Jersey; two sisters, A1lean Blose of ~ve r.llde, CaM., Thomas Wingate overturned Ihal decision in 20\ I. and tilean Classen of Chal!!worth, Calif,; one brother, (David) Bollinger, j ohn (Kru-en) Willmoth of LouisvUle, Marilyn Will molh and Robert Willmoth II; and cher­ The appeals court ruling u~ h?lds Wingate's d~sion . Willianl DWlaway of Glendale, Calif.; a nephew. Henry judge Michelle Keller, JOllied by J udge M.ichael 'Ibompson Nichola! III of Newport Coast, Calif.; an ished great·grandmother of Clay and Cole Bollinger, Caperton. wrote the actions of detectivell involved aunt, Marcella Martin Leach; and cousins. the Il.ev. Al­ Ben, Abbey and Cooper Willmoth and Davis and Kayla were protected by govemmentallmmllnity. ben Gicsler and the Rev. j ohn ThomM Dunaway and Robyn; sistCTJ·in-Iaw, Alice Mulhall of E1 izabethlown ~A1though the choices made by the detectives in Susan Dunaway. and Alice Mulhall of Sun City West, Ariz.; and eight The funeral is 10:30 a.m. Friday at Kerr Il rothers )'-u­ nieces and nephews and their families. Ihis case proved to be tragically nawed, the execution of the undercover operation with leBron was left 10 ncral Home in l..cxington with burial to follow in Ihe The funer.u is 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. james Catholic the discretion and judgment of the delectives. ~ Keller Lexinb