Victim(s): Kathy Chou
Murderer(s): Ezekiel James Watkins
Youtuber: Harry's Horror Hive
Published: Oct 20, 2023
Decription:
A high school faux pas leads to a violent encounter.
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RENTON, Washington, USA -- It’s the spring of 2011 and students are…
Victim(s): Kathy Chou
Murderer(s): Ezekiel James Watkins
Youtuber: Harry's Horror Hive
Published: Oct 20, 2023
Decription:
A high school faux pas leads to a violent encounter.
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RENTON, Washington, USA -- It’s the spring of 2011 and students are in-between classes at Lindbergh Senior High School in Renton, a city in Washington state.
The air is heavy at the school because it’s now been over a year since one of its own, 19-year-old Kathy Chou, had gone missing after going for a walk from her home one spring night.
One of Kathy’s friends had been thinking a lot about her since she vanished.
As she is making her way to class, she crosses paths in the hallway with another student named Jaymie Marlow, who was part of Kathy’s friend group. At least at one point.
One thing that catches her eye is Jaymie’s shoes, a relatively unique knee-high version of the famous Converse sneakers. They were black with colored white toe caps and white shoelaces.
This bothered Kathy’s friend because she felt it was weird for Jaymie to be wearing shoes similar to Kathy’s during a time when there has been no closure about what had happened to Kathy.
What the friend didn’t know at the time was that her observation had a far darker story than she could have ever imagined.
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Chapters:
00:00 Prologue
01:28 Chapter 1: The text
04:05 Chapter 2: Communications
05:41 Chapter 3: The ex
07:33 Chapter 4: Always online
10:56 Chapter 5: Rebound girl
12:56 Chapter 6: The roommate
16:03 Chapter 7: Fury
20:43 Epilogue
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Primary sources:
Charging documents, audio transcripts and the following:
https://www.courts.wa.gov/content/petitions/95602-2%20Answer%20to%20prv.pdf
https://casetext.com/case/state-v-watkins-384
Secondary sources:
https://www.oxygen.com/criminal-confessions/crime-time/ex-boyfriend-missing-19-year-old-confesses-murder
Stock footage:
• How cellphone towers help establish suspects in criminal cases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIp-ScJ-vQ8&t=0s
