Summary of M. William Phelps's The Killing Kind

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#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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350030617

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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