Confessions Of A Monster

In the autumn of 2009 Gastonia, North Carolina, was a textile town of about 50,000 people, thirty minutes from Charlotte. Heather Marie Catterton was seventeen. Her parents, Nick Catterton and Stella, never married. They began dating in 1983 in South Carolina, had Nicole and then Heather, and lived in St Augustine, Florida for about five years before returning to Grover, North Carolina. Nick worked as a plumber and drank heavily. A shot was fired inside the family home, and the Department of Social Services took custody of Heather when she was fifteen over child endangerment concerns, releasing her at sixteen. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

On 17 October 2009 she telephoned her friend Summer Hefner and asked her to come over. this part of the story is covered for now He had been dating Heather's older sister Nicole for months and stayed at the Catterton house much of the time. He told them Heather had sent him to collect them.

The four spent the day and night drinking and smoking crack. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it About eight in the evening he and Heather drove to his mother's house to look for money, came back with a jug of pennies, cashed it at a supermarket around eleven, and bought more crack. this part of the story is covered for now After midnight he and Heather left alone. Summer never saw her again.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He told police he had had sex with Heather, with Nicole and with their mother Stella, and suggested they look for a man known as the Marlboro Man who drove a red Dodge.

On 29 October 2009 police were called to a country gravel and dirt road in York County, South Carolina, near Clover. A passer-by had seen a striped sock and a naked calf sticking out of a bush. The dead woman was white, naked from the waist down apart from a hoodie pulled above her breasts and socks, with a deep gash in her side, scratches that looked like dragging, and blue veins visible under the skin. Her jeans, rhinestone belt, red bra, black underwear and red shirt were found scattered near a small concrete bridge, some down by the creek, along with a used crack pipe. The first press release described a woman of twenty-five to thirty-five; she was Heather Catterton, seventeen. An autopsy found cocaine at a level that could have killed her, advanced decomposition, and injuries to her eyes consistent with strangulation or asphyxiation, but the final cause of death was recorded as undetermined. Witnesses had seen a red Ford F-150 and a two-tone Chevrolet S10 pickup in the area.

On 15 November 2009 two women riding horses near the Kings Mountain National Military Park in York County saw what they took to be a burned mannequin in a ring of scorched ground. One of them touched it and found it soft, like dough. The body had been bound at the feet with copper wire or cord. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Her mother said Randy had told her she loved her and would be back the next day.

this part of the story is covered for now He first said he had never had sex with Randy, then that she had rubbed against his arm. details of the account remain covered until revealed Another piece was in the boot of his car. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now Interviewed in custody he fell asleep in the room, then said he would discuss the murders if the officers fetched the York County investigators and some food. He said the women had not been killed in York County, only dumped there, and that he had killed Heather in the laundry room and Randy in the den of his mother's house. He described putting a cord round Heather's neck, wrestling her down, suffocating her with a Walmart bag, and punching her chest, a process that took ten to fifteen minutes. He said he then went upstairs, watched television and made himself a sandwich. He described strangling Randy on the couch while his mother read in bed about thirty feet away, punching her in the face after she was dead, keeping her body in the same basement closet for two or three days, and then dumping and burning it. He also claimed to have killed two prostitutes in Florida and buried them on Merritt Island in Brevard County, but he gave conflicting dates, 1992 and 2009, and no bodies were ever found. He gave police details of a 1980 kidnapping and rape of a Bessemer City convenience store clerk and a 1981 robbery in Kings Mountain.

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the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Prosecutors took the Catterton case first and were allowed to present evidence of the Saldana killing under rule 404(b), but not the Ratchford killing. 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

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details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Nick Catterton had died before that. this part of the story is covered for now