Four days have passed since King’s father found her body in a field behind an East Naples hotel, and her friends and family are no closer to an answer as to how that happened.
Friends told deputies King was under the influence of an unknown drug when she left the Days Inn on Tollgate Boulevard around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The Medical Examiner has not released a cause of death. Toxicology tests are pending.
“Nothing makes sense,” [King's mother], Truax, said of the circumstances surrounding her daughter’s death.
How did King end up so far into the woods without her phone or purse? Did she stumble there alone? Did someone take her?...
... At about 8 p.m., a Days Inn employee called to say he had retrieved King’s purse and cellphone from a garbage can where two people were seen discarding it. They told the employee they were throwing away garbage from Taco Bell, Truax said...
Troy King said he drove to the hotel, parked his white van and checked behind an adjacent hotel, the Super 8, following a trail that led into the woods. He saw some buzzards and noticed they were circling a body. When he got closer, he recognized a tattoo on the person and knew it was his daughter...
Truax believes her daughter died of an overdose and that the people she was with know more than they’re saying. She suspects King’s death might have something to do with a synthetic street drug called flakka.
