Summary of M. William Phelps's The Killing Kind

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 On the afternoon of October 29, 2009, York County Sheriff’s Office detective Alex Wallace arrived at the scene of the crime. He saw the girl’s toe sock poking out from the weeds. Her body was situated between two of the pipes. There was a surreal quality to the scene: the tranquility of the forest, insects humming, birds fluttering, and this dead teen in a culvert, amongst some bushes and trees.
#2 The search began for the girl’s missing clothes, which could contain DNA evidence. The cops drove along the side of the road, looking into the bushes for any signs of the clothes.
#3 The girl’s body was that of an 18 to 28 year old white female about 5’ 6 tall, weighing 150 to 160 pounds, with brown hair and dark eyes. The police released a press release and photographs of the girl’s clothing and a necklace she was wearing.
#4 The sheriff’s office believed that the girl’s killer was driving one of the vehicles, a Ford F-150 red pickup or a two-tone Chevy S-10 pickup with a blue top and tan bottom.

Sujets

• General
• General officer
• True Crime

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350030617
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on M. William Phelps's The Killing Kind
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On the afternoon of October 29, 2009, York County Sheriff’s Office detective Alex Wallace arrived at the scene of the crime. He saw the girl’s toe sock poking out from the weeds. Her body was situated between two of the pipes. There was a surreal quality to the scene: the tranquility of the forest, insects humming, birds fluttering, and this dead teen in a culvert, amongst some bushes and trees.

#2

The search began for the girl’s missing clothes, which could contain DNA evidence. The cops drove along the side of the road, looking into the bushes for any signs of the clothes.

#3

The girl’s body was that of an 18 to 28 year old white female about 5’ 6 tall, weighing 150 to 160 pounds, with brown hair and dark eyes. The police released a press release and photographs of the girl’s clothing and a necklace she was wearing.

#4

The sheriff’s office believed that the girl’s killer was driving one of the vehicles, a Ford F-150 red pickup or a two-tone Chevy S-10 pickup with a blue top and tan bottom.

#5

Heather, Nick’s daughter, was a kindhearted person who had a deep love for all kinds of people, especially kids her age. She would have graduated high school and gone on to bigger and better things.

#6

Heather had been in prison, serving a five-month sentence on a probation violation, during the week of October 15. She had been released early so she could see her dad. They hugged, but it wasn’t a father-daughter conversation like Nick would have later wanted.

#7

On October 28, 2009, a report came out that a girl had been found dead in a ditch. It was possibly wearing toe socks, which was reminiscent of Heather. Nick was devastated. He waited another day before calling the York County Sheriff’s Office.

#8

Heather’s body was found in the ditch near the bridge in North Carolina, and she was identified as the victim. The YCSO knew that the crime had originated in North Carolina, so they began searching the road there. They found a white tennis shoe near the creek.

#9

Dr. Schandl noted that Heather’s body was deteriorating rapidly. She had a number of bruises and scrapes on her skin, and her pupils and cornea were cloudy and poorly visualized, another indication that she had been dead for some time.

#10

The doctors found no signs of severe asphyxia, and examination of the soft tissues of the neck in a layer by layer dissection revealed no abnormalities. They believed that Heather had been suffocated, but it had taken a lot of time to do so.

#11

The doctor wanted more law enforcement investigation before making a determination. She believed the death to be a homicide, but she wasn’t comfortable making a final call until further investigation could yield results.

#12

After his daughter was found in a ditch, Nick was concerned that a vicious murderer was on the loose in Gaston County, North Carolina. He was sure the police would have told him if she had overdosed, so he considered only two other possibilities: a vicious murderer was stalking the streets, or she had been kidnapped.

#13

The police had tracked down Heather’s boyfriend, Danny Hembree, who had encouraged the family to report her missing. He had admitted to having sex with Heather that night.

#14

Danny was able to provide investigators with a description of the man he believed had kidnapped Heather, the Marlboro Man. He also told them that he had seen the man near the seventeenth, looking for Heather.

#15

Sommer Heffner, one of Heather’s best friends, was reading the newspaper the morning of November 1, a Sunday. She saw a story about a girl found in a ditch, and read what the girl was wearing. It was Heather.

#16

As the second week of the investigation came to a close, there were still no viable suspects on the radar. The investigation was ratcheted up ten notches when it was revealed that Heather had been killed by a serial killer preying on women in Gaston County.

#17

Heather’s picture was on the news, and her sister, Randi, knew her. She had done time in jail recently for several misdemeanors, and she had seen Heather around town. She said she would not have gone down without a fight.

#18

On November 2, just a few days after Heather’s body was found, Randi called her sister to ask her to come and get her. Shellie agreed to pick her up.

#19

Randi and Shellie’s grandmother had a large spread of land with a lake, and Shellie recalled how her fondest memories of her sister included going down to the lake, just sitting, staring out at the water, and talking like young girls do.

#20

Randi was a young woman who had custody of her middle child. She was determined to love and be loved before settling down. She didn’t want to be just the next thing to do in life.

#21

Randi got pregnant in high school, and after she had Brendon, these people, that crowd, started bothering her and her boyfriend. She wanted to escape all of that and go to Michigan, but her family wouldn’t allow it.

#22

Randi’s life with the new man took a downward spiral. She knew the relationship wasn’t going to work, and she was afraid he’d take the children away from her. She began drinking to cope with the pain.

#23

On November 15, Kat and her sister-in-law, Linda, were riding horses near Kings Mountain State Park in Blacksburg, North Carolina. They came across a burned mannequin. It looked like someone had set a mannequin on fire.

#24

The captain told his officers to get some crime scene tape up around the area and watch it closely. He did not want anyone unassociated with the investigation to enter the scene and possibly contaminate it.

#25

On November 16, Shellie Nations was watching the news when she saw a picture of the tattoo that looked very familiar to her. She called her husband and told him to watch the news, as she was sure the tattoo looked like one of theirs.

#26

Shellie Rinaldi, Randi’s sister, was extremely worried about her sister. She and her husband searched all the places Randi usually was, but could not find her. They returned home near midnight.

#27

Shellie knew she had to do something to get rid of the anxiety of thinking that Randi was in the morgue. She called Crime Stoppers and asked for more information about the tattoo and the girl found in the woods. She figured it would take forever for them to call her back, so she was surprised when they called her back within five minutes.

#28

The autopsy of the latest girl found in the woods revealed that she had been strangulated. The cause of death was undisputed among doctors, who determined that she had been wrapped in a comforter after she had been burned postmortem.