OH OH - Katelyn Markham, 22, Fairfield, 14 August 2011 - #4

[concernedmother]

I never wanted it to be him because Katelyn loved him. I ran alot of other possibilities around . But the location she was found in pretty much tells me no one but him made Katelyn disappear.

 

[Darcyline]

I love how the entire statement is about how bad this has been for him and how HE is trying to have a life and move on but its soooooo hard.
Sorry, I am a bit biased and admittedly a bit unkind toward him especially (ignoring all else) when he had a new girlfriend very quickly after Katelyn disappeared.

 

[cluciano63]

I love how the entire statement is about how bad this has been for him and how HE is trying to have a life and move on but its soooooo hard.
Sorry, I am a bit biased and admittedly a bit unkind toward him especially (ignoring all else) when he had a new girlfriend very quickly after Katelyn disappeared.

Honestly, I couldn't see what Katelyn saw in him...yet he gets another GF so quickly. Lid for every pot, I guess.

 

[scorekeeper]

There seems to be to many coincidences around him and Katelyn disappearance. He knows something and I bet he is really, really dreading the new police interviews. She has been found and the questions will be much more specific this time.

I bet he lawyers-up here soon....JMO

 

[scorekeeper]

Honestly, I couldn't see what Katelyn saw in him...yet he gets another GF so quickly. Lid for every pot, I guess.

Perhaps that was part of the disagreement that night; Katelyn may have questioned him about another girlfriend? And if that other girlfriend was married and if ....well you know

 

[Redgoblin]

I don't see a reason for JC to cut her head off, sorry for being graphic... especially when you consider other bones of hers were found in the same vicinity. If you wanted to avoid identification you would move them to another site.

That said, perhaps they were moved there amongst other rubbish by someone else, someone innocent of murder but guilty of illegal dumping? - We call that fly tipping in the UK, not sure if it's the same terminology in the states, I'd be looking at local traveller communities to see if I could locate a source to where the rubbish might of originated from.

 

[danzn16]

Studies have been done about indicators of guilt in 911 calls, and it's interesting stuff. Carter's 911 call features several of the "guilty" markers, including one of the most significant: providing extraneous information.

In one study of 100 calls with 50 guilty and 50 innocent callers, of the callers who included extraneous information, 96% were guilty, and only 4% innocent. You can read the article here:

http://www.opconline.ca/depts/commsupervisor/911 Homicide Calls and Statement Analysis.pdf

you are right about him having lots of details. especially the one about the shady people on her street from an event. i thought that was kind of weird

 

[SurfieTX]

Also interesting is that he felt the need to find a new group of friends, which makes me wonder who knows what and/or saw what..

 

[SurfieTX]

Also interesting to me is that he felt the need to surround himself with a new group of friends. Wonder why?

 

[danzn16]

his statement is really weird. I dont know if i've ever seen a statement from a person close to the deceased that only talks about themselves. It is always about the tragic loss of life, where that person was going in life, seeking to get info from the public about who did this, etc. Not about finding new friends, going to school, going to work and basically making life better for themselves. So odd.

 

[cluciano63]

Everything this guy has said has been kind of odd, so it is difficult to know how to view the latest quotes.

 

[A_News_Junkie]

In one of the interviews, the gentleman that found Katelyn said he goes there a couple times a year to look for scrap (anyone else remember him saying that?). Does he mean the same spot or the general area? When was the last time he was there in the area he found Katelyn?

**sorry I don't have the link; going from memory

Yes, he said that. Having searched that area quite a bit there are little pull offs where a car or two can fit on the side of the road. The areas with small and large ravines are JUST FILLED WITH TRASH. Semi truck tires, hundreds of car tires, bags of deer and pig bones, pets bones with the collars even in the bags, kitty litter and trash so foul you just can't imagine unless there. These illegal dumping places are all over that area.
A few years back communities started charging for trash pick up and you either had to buy stickers and follow city rules or hire Rumpke or a local sanitation pick up service - so I guess people would rather trash their community and spend the money in gas, than to have it disposed of properly.

Anyway, I can DEFINITELY see how a scrapper could make some cash doing that type of searching.

 

[Jenni]

Does OH have the DP? IN does.

Yes, there are 149 men and 1 woman waiting as of April 1,2013.

 

[Jenni]

I don't see a reason for JC to cut her head off, sorry for being graphic... especially when you consider other bones of hers were found in the same vicinity. If you wanted to avoid identification you would move them to another site.

If he killed her in another location, before the drive there, it makes sense he would not want to look at her face, a bag slipped over head, the rest of body wrapped in sheet or tarp; that would be likely. A dead body starts to lose fluids and gases pretty quickly.

 

[Jerri Blank]

wow i wasn't expecting an answer so quickly (i've been waiting on an answer about remains in another case i follow for like a month with no word) but i am glad that at least the agony of not knowing has been ended for her family.

following her case from the very beginning, i tried really hard to keep an open mind where certain folks in her life were concerned, but at this point i would say its impossible to not suspect JC.

did the PD ever forensically investigate her home? i've read about many searches, but nothing about what may have been examined in the home.

 

[SchoolgirlShamus]

I don't get the bit where he says she was so "violently taken from me". How does he know that?

He was talking about himself so much that I wondered if he meant his own life (as he knew it) was taken from him violently, i.e., by her disappearance and the resulting scrutiny of him.

Whether he meant himself or Katelyn, it's quite a thing to say.

 

[SchoolgirlShamus]

In this story he mentions a "black plastic bag". Wonder if it was a large garbage bag? Kroger bags are smaller and are tan in color.

I wonder if he described it as being "like" a grocery bag in that it was the same size, plastic with two handles, and it just got a little lost in translation?

 

[SchoolgirlShamus]

If he killed her in another location, before the drive there, it makes sense he would not want to look at her face, a bag slipped over head, the rest of body wrapped in sheet or tarp; that would be likely. A dead body starts to lose fluids and gases pretty quickly.

That would make sense. The killer (and/or the person who disposed of her) may have been trying to minimize any evidence being left in his vehicle, and maybe a random plastic bag was the only thing to hand.

Another reason for putting a bag over her head could be to camouflage her at the dump site. If she was clothed, at a glance the rest of her might have looked like a pile of clothes tossed among the trash, but not her face or hair, so maybe someone took an extra step to conceal those.

 

[Jenni]

That would make sense. The killer (and/or the person who disposed of her) may have been trying to minimize any evidence being left in his vehicle, and maybe a random plastic bag was the only thing to hand.

Another reason for putting a bag over her head could be to camouflage her at the dump site. If she was clothed, at a glance the rest of her might have looked like a pile of clothes tossed among the trash, but not her face or hair, so maybe someone took an extra step to conceal those.

true, because usually a bag is just garbage; people poke around with a stick so her hair would be very visible if not covered.

 

[Dionysia]

Katelyn's case is what brought me to Websleuths.

May she rest in peace and may her killer be brought to justice soon.