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U.S. NEWS Friday 23 February 2018
Husband of slain online exhibitionist charged with murder

By JAY REEVES campus police officer at Lemley said she died of
Associated Press Birmingham-Southern Col- blunt force trauma to the
CALERA, Ala. (AP) — The lege, where spokeswoman head. He wouldn't discuss
husband of an online ex- Hannah Wolfson said he how she came to be in the
hibitionist whose partially had been placed on leave street, whether she was
nude body was found out- and is being fired. killed inside or outside her
side her suburban home Kathleen Dawn West de- house or what police be-
was arrested Thursday in scribed herself as a full-time lieve triggered the killing.
her killing, an Alabama po- wife and mom on Face- The slain woman's parents
lice chief said. book but lived another had no immediate com-
William Jeffrey West, 44, is life on other social media ment on the arrest. After
being charged with murder platforms. With a resem- the slaying, mother Nancy
in the death of his 42-year- blance to Marilyn Monroe, Martin posted a photo of
old wife, Kathleen Dawn she called herself an exhi- her smiling daughter and
West, Calera Police Chief bitionist and posted risque son-in-law on Facebook,
Sean Lemley said at a news photos with a chance for and in a post seeking mon-
conference. subscribers to see sexier im- ey for funeral expenses she
"He was the suspect from ages for $15.99 a month. referred to "Kat" as "a cher-
the very beginning," Lem- Her body was found Jan. ished wife to Jeff, as well
This photo provided by Shelby county jail shows William Jeffrey ley said. 13 by a passing motorist as a loving mother to their
West. West, the husband of an online exhibitionist whose par-
tially nude body was found outside her suburban home was ar- Court records weren't avail- near the curb across the daughter."
rested Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, in her killing, an Alabama police able to show whether West street from her home in On Facebook, Kathleen
chief said. West, 44, is being charged with murder in the death had an attorney. Bond was the quiet bedroom com- Dawn West had posted lots
of his 42-year-old wife, Kathleen Dawn West, Calera Police Chief set at $500,000, a jail log munity of Calera, a town of selfies and commenters
Sean Lemley said at a news conference. "He was the suspect showed. of 14,000 people about 35 often mentioned her at-
from the very beginning," Lemley said. West worked as an unsworn miles south of Birmingham. tractiveness. q
(Shelby county jail via AP)

US Judge convicts man in 1980

killing that baffled authorities

By PATRICK WHITTLE of a high school, clothed
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A only in socks and running
judge found a 57-year-old shoes. She had been beat-
man guilty Thursday of a en to death. On Thursday,
murder that baffled author- McLain's mother Pamela
ities in Maine for nearly four McLain expressed relief at
decades and at one time the verdict while talking
looked like a cold case that to reporters outside court.
would never be resolved. She stated that she doesn't
Philip Scott Fournier was hate Fournier and would
charged in 2016 with killing meet with his family if they
16-year-old Joyce McLain wanted. "It took 37½ years
in East Millinocket in 1980. and you'll never see a hap-
Superior Court Justice Ann pier mother than this one
Murray issued the ver- right here," she said. There
dict in a packed Bangor was no physical evidence
courtroom. McLain disap- tying Fournier to the crime
peared while she was out scene, which the attor-
jogging, and her body ney, Jeffrey Silverstein, has
was found two days later called unusual for a murder
behind the athletic fields case.q