Too Many Knots Tied

In December 1996 Tallapoosa, a town of 78 people in New Madrid County in the Missouri boot heel, was the scene of a double murder. 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 Candy had had back surgery four days earlier.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He decided to flee and to get money from Irene, whom he thought had some. On the evening of 15 December 1996 he told friends Daniel and Samantha Simmons that he was going to Tallapoosa to collect money, drove them past the Sisk house three times, said the girl was going to pay him and pointed to a note on the door. Samantha noticed him playing with a purple Crown Royal bag.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Candy telephoned her aunt Debbie Dubois, who was at work at the elementary school. Shortly after nine, a bank teller in nearby Risco saw a man in a white Ford Taurus with Candy in the passenger seat, dressed in a nightgown and wrapped in a blanket, and another person in the rear seat. The man presented a cheque for $1,000 signed by Candy and took the cash, $100 in $20 bills. At about 10:45 Debbie called the house and got no answer. She drove over, entered through the carport and found Candy on her bed, her neck cut and a knife sticking out of her chest; Irene lay in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor, hogtied. The telephones were gone. Debbie ran to a store where her brother worked and called the police.

Candy's hands had been bound with rope, her throat slashed six to eight times; a six-inch knife had been driven through her sternum and heart after death, and there were bite marks on her breast and a dildo inserted anally. Irene had 17 stab wounds, five of them through the chest and lung, three deep slashes to the throat and three wounds consistent with scissors; it took her 15 to 45 minutes to drown in her own blood. The purses had been opened, a cheque for $1,000 made out to cash lay unsigned, a television and VCR were missing, and the tape of Independence Day had been taken from its box.

this part of the story is covered for now Lieutenant Steve Hensley found an address at his parents' house, drove past around midnight and saw a white Ford Taurus matching the bank description. details of the account remain covered until revealed The motel showed he had not rented the room until the following day. At a second interview he asked to speak to his brother and then blurted out that he had not meant to kill them. He said he had gone for money, that Irene began a cheque and stopped, that Candy wrote one for $1,000 and he drove them to the bank; he tied them up to buy time, saw Irene watching him through the kitchen window, went back and hogtied her, and when both women screamed he 'shut them up'. He denied any sexual assault.

A search of his room found 32 ropes and cords, two matching the bindings, notes with directions to the Sisk house and a list of what to take ('things for first entrance: gun, back, handcuffs, pocket, twelve foot of rope, legs, into six foot pieces'), a Crown Royal bag holding handcuffs and a red duffel bag with ropes, more than 30 dildos, homemade sex tapes, a bondage magazine and the Independence Day tape. Blood on his mother's car door handle was a mixture of his DNA and Irene's.

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