Beauty And The Beast

Lisa Young was born on 16 November 1972 in Philadelphia, the middle of three daughters of Jerry and Lucille Young. The family later moved, and she graduated from high school in Farrells Hills, Pennsylvania, in 1990 before attending the Philadelphia Art Institute. She had her son, Dylan McCoy, in 1991, while she was still in college, and raised him largely on her own. She moved to Indiana for work, lived for a time in Swayzee and went back to college to study marketing. She worked at the JC Penney in the Five Points Mall in Marion while she studied, and later became marketing and sales director at WXXC Radio and then marketing director of the mall itself. Friends described her as relentlessly cheerful, loyal and busy, a member of the Ambassadors Club of Marion, the Grant County Chamber of Commerce and the Marion Rotary Club, and a regular at the Treaty Church of Christ.

this part of the story is covered for now Patterson, born in November 1969, was a fitness enthusiast who owned a roofing company and, by his own account, worked as a Jean-Claude Van Dam lookalike. He gave her a business card. They married on 24 August 1996 in an extravagant Beauty and the Beast themed wedding at which Patterson dressed as the Beast. Around 1999 or 2000 they moved into a four-bedroom, three-bathroom, 4,700 square foot house at 5581 East 800 S in La Fontaine, Indiana. Dylan eventually called Patterson Dad, but Lisa's family never warmed to him. They found him self-centred and harsh with Dylan, and her sister doubted that he loved Lisa as she deserved.

Patterson began an affair around 2006 or 2007 with Stacy Henderson, a well-known local woman who had been chief of staff to Marion's mayor, Wayne Seabold, and whose husband was a police officer. Lisa discovered it in 2008. Patterson apologised and said it was over, but the affair resumed about three months later. In November 2008 he asked a real estate appraiser, Marie Lloyd, to value the house without telling his wife, saying he did not know whether he could afford a divorce. That winter Dylan saw Patterson shove Lisa during an argument, the only time he saw him put hands on her. On 31 December 2008 a sheriff's deputy was called to the house over a civil dispute about property and took Dylan to a friend's house for the night.

In February 2009 Patterson told Lisa's friend Lea Fraser that he would not give Lisa 50 per cent of his business, and he telephoned Lisa's mother, Lucille, to say that Lisa no longer trusted him and that he wanted her and Dylan out of the house. Lucille told him he was free to leave; he hung up. On 20 March 2009 he filed for divorce. Lisa hired a lawyer and obtained a continuance; Patterson obtained another, pushing the hearing to 7 August. The family did not know the hearing had been postponed. On 20 June Lisa visited her sister Christine in Virginia and, with Christine acting as her financial adviser, changed her $450,000 life insurance policy so that Dylan was the sole beneficiary instead of an even split with Patterson. By late June the wedding photographs were down and the house was for sale. Patterson told Stacy Henderson the divorce was going through.

On the morning of 2 July 2009 Patterson said he left home before 5 a.m., went to the landfill and returned around 6.30 a.m. to collect Dylan and another employee for a roofing job in Swayzee. The prosecution later established from the home surveillance system that he came back to the house at 8.32 a.m., and that cameras recorded him entering and leaving at 9.56, 10.03, 10.07 and 11.38. His account to police was that he ran errands, returned around 11.30, could not find Lisa, went to the basement and found her under the weight bar of a Smith machine with 140 pounds on it. details of the account remain covered until revealed At 12.14 p.m. he called 911, said his wife had had an accident at home and asked for a police escort. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it An ambulance and police intercepted the truck, and Lisa arrived at Marion General Hospital at 12.44 p.m. She was pronounced dead at 12.49 p.m. She was 37.

The first reading was a freak accident. There was a bruise on her neck and an abrasion on her left shoulder, and Patterson had no scratches or defensive marks. The machine was a Smith machine with guide bars and hooks, and the two safety stoppers were not in place. A detective who lay on the bench found that the bar lined up with his neck rather than his chest. But the machine showed little wear and no mechanical fault, and the investigator could not make it fail.

The autopsy changed the picture. Lisa had bruising around her neck, cuts and scrapes on the bridge of her nose and left shoulder, and petechiae across her body. The cause of death was asphyxiation due to compression of the neck. Her larynx and voice box were compressed but not crushed, which the pathologist said was inconsistent with 140 pounds falling any distance; in his view the bar could not have fallen more than an inch or two. The petechiae were consistent with someone straddling her torso or with great weight pressing on it. He believed she died before 10 a.m., and that a healthy woman should have been able to escape the machine, which offered at least seven ways out. Dylan testified that he had seen his mother use the bench press only once, with Patterson spotting her, and that she otherwise used the treadmill and five-pound hand weights. A neck injury from an earlier car accident made heavy lifting difficult.

On 3 July Patterson telephoned Christine to ask about the insurance policy and was stunned to learn that Dylan was the sole beneficiary. The same day he texted Stacy Henderson asking whether her husband was trying to get closer to her now that he was free. He sought guardianship of Dylan, but a judge allowed Dylan, then a week and a half from turning eighteen, to choose where to live. Dylan moved to Virginia to live with an aunt and uncle and finished his senior year there.

On 15 July an employee of Koorsen, the company that installed the surveillance system, told police that the system recorded to an internal hard drive and that the DVD slot was only for copying. A search warrant produced footage showing Patterson home at 8.32 a.m. and around the house through the morning. His phone records placed calls near the house between 9.57 and 12.14, and he and Stacy Henderson exchanged 130 text messages that day, including a three-letter message sent while he waited for the ambulance. 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 state argued motive, opportunity and lies, and relied on the surveillance timeline. Dylan testified; Stacy Henderson testified under immunity after admitting a false statement in her deposition. 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 A tree and bench were dedicated to Lisa at the Five Points Mall on 17 July 2010, and a Dateline episode aired on 25 February 2011.