Dead With No Head

Kingman is a small town in south-central Kansas, in Kingman County, about fifty minutes from Wichita. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed They began dating around 2002, married in Belize in 2004 and had two sons.

By 2010 the marriage was in trouble. In November the couple began counselling with clinical social worker Connie Sunderman, which she described as a last-ditch effort before Vashti filed for divorce. Vashti spoke of loneliness and showed symptoms of depression, but by April 2011 she said she felt better than in years and planned to move closer to her sister and her job. She told the therapist she would never take her own life because of her religious beliefs and her sons. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She had also become intimate with a friend and feared he would find out.

this part of the story is covered for now At his session on 14 April he said a divorce would mean she was divorcing the whole Seacat family, children included, and that he would take the boys out of the country rather than lose them. On 19 April Vashti told the therapist about the dream and they arranged a safety plan for serving the papers. On 21 April she booked a hotel room in Old Town Wichita for 19 May, the night of the Tim McGraw concert.

details of the account remain covered until revealed At 3.15 the next morning a neighbour who could not sleep heard what she took to be a gunshot. Police called to a fire at the Seacat house found the second storey engulfed. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

He said he had been sleeping downstairs, that Vashti phoned him to get the boys out, that he heard two pops, went upstairs and could not reach her through the flames. But he had no soot, no blood and only a small burn on his foot. After the fire was out Vashti's body was found on the bed in the upstairs master bedroom, burned down to the metal springs. Under her left side lay a .44 Ruger Redhawk revolver and a five-gallon petrol can sat on the bed. She had a single gunshot wound through the head into the neck, travelling right to left and slightly downward; other wounds were consistent with ammunition cooking off in the heat. The coroner could not say whether it was murder or suicide.

The fire had started in the hallway and moved into the bedroom, not on the bed. Investigators found printed web pages and a water-soaked PowerPoint presentation about suicide wounds and death investigations involving fire, including reasons for suicide such as marital strife, humiliation and revenge. 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 Vashti is dead and it's my fault." He then said he had told his wife he would take the children and had not pulled the trigger, but had caused it.

Two days later Vashti's journal was found in the driver's seat of her car, its last entry a note saying she could not fight any more and would be watching from heaven. A Kansas Bureau of Investigation document examiner concluded the page had probably been traced from her handwriting; defence expert Avis Odenbaugh said it was natural writing but conceded under cross-examination that she was not currently certified and that there were discrepancies.

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The case was covered by Dateline in 2013 as "Burning Suspicion". details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it