The Missing Psychic Gypsy

Kathy Adams, known across northern Colorado as Psychic K, was born in 1953, one of nine siblings. She had four children and an ex-husband, and had been working as a psychic since her teens; her brother Gary said the ability got stronger as she went. this part of the story is covered for now They were together for 20 years and never married, though she used his surname for her business while her legal name stayed Adams. Both were Romani gypsies. details of the account remain covered until revealed

The couple moved to Fort Collins around 2002. Kathy ran Psychic K from a pink house with a large sign at Harmony and Timberline Road, seeing between 10 and 20 customers a month at $25 to $125 a session, with clients driving from across Colorado and from Wyoming. The business had been established in 1999. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it They moved to North Garfield Avenue between Loveland and Fort Collins.

this part of the story is covered for now Her sister had bought her a plane ticket to Atlanta for 10 October, and Kathy delayed the flight by a week to help her grandson, telling her family she was done with the marriage after multiple instances of domestic violence. details of the account remain covered until revealed It was the last time any of her family heard from her. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On 12 October her sister asked for a welfare check. Deputies went to the 2900 block of East Mulberry Street and, finding suspicious circumstances, entered. Kathy was not there. this part of the story is covered for now A niece told police about the threat she had heard on the phone.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He had called the sheriff's office and then left, and investigators began tracking his movements by mobile phone. Surveillance video from a hotel in the Longmont area showed him arriving at 1:30 a.m. on 13 October wearing gloves and leaving about nine hours later in a different vehicle, abandoning the Buick he had arrived in. The Buick was found in the hotel car park, a cadaver dog alerted on its boot, and inside were gloves, bin bags and cleaning supplies. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

On 23 October deputies were called to an area of Highway 36 near the Boulder County line, where something was lying in a ravine off the road. The body was so decomposed they could not tell the gender at first. Two days later it was identified as Kathy Adams. She had been dumped naked, beaten from head to toe, bound with duct tape and wrapped in the missing carpet and in curtains that matched her house. She had 11 rib fractures and bleeding on the brain, injuries to her genital area, and her wedding ring had been ripped from her finger hard enough to tear the finger. The cause of death was blunt force trauma and strangulation.

this part of the story is covered for now He had been staying in hotels using cash and false names. Bail was set at $100,000 and then raised to $1 million, and the court refused to lower it, noting that he had taken steps to evade capture. details of the account remain covered until revealed The prosecution, led by district attorney Josh Lehman, pointed to DNA, the clump of his hair, blood around the house, his scratches and the injuries to Kathy, describing an intimate beating and sexual assault by her husband. The defence argued that the DNA could have come from any male relative. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Kathy Adams's body had been found in Estes Park.