GUILTY AL - Kathleen "Kat" West, 42, murdered, Calera, 13 Jan 2018 *husband arrested*

I agree.

If she was killed inside of her home or even in his vehicle or hers there would be blood evidence since we know she was bleeding from the gash to the back of her head. Also if he took her outside of their home for some strange reason after murdering her there would be at least a blood trail or even blood droplets leading from their home to where she was found. Head wounds bleed profusely.

I also believe she left her home sometime that night after she knew her husband was sound asleep, and something went wrong, and like you say, they came back after killing her, and pushed her out of the vehicle where she was found halfway in the street and halfway on the neighbor's property. They left her phone, and alcohol there so it would not be found in their possession should they be interviewed or stopped by the police. That has always made the most sense to me based on the exact location where she was found. I also wonder if they found bruises/scrapes or abrasions on her face that could have happened if she was pushed out of the vehicle landing on her face.

I also think since she was an exceptionally pretty woman in her subdivision the family who found her most likely went across the street to immediately notify Mr. West that they had found her. They had lived there since 2015 and in small subdivisions like this neighbors recognize other neighbors, and where they reside in the area. Kat would stand out due to her beauty and she was known to be outside of their home often either playing with their daughter or mowing the grass.

I think LE has to go through a long list of potential suspects either ruling them in as possibles or ruling them out. With as many subscribers as she had on different sites that within itself could take quite a long time.

She may have never met this person before but had communicated with them via messaging. She very well could have thought they were who they proclaimed to be on one of the sites, but on the internet no one can be sure who anyone really is or even if they have a criminal record.

Sadly, we have seen such horror stories before when a victim was duped into believing they were meeting someone very nice, but it turned out to be the total opposite.

I imagine by now the local police agency has asked for the assistance of the Alabama Bureau of Investigation or asked for assistance from other police agencies in Birmingham.

I hope they find out soon who did this to Kat and they are brought to justice and given the maximum allowable punishment by law. It is heart breaking to know a little girl no longer has her mother or that a mother has lost her daughter. And if her husband is innocent it is equally heart rendering that he has lost his wife of 14 years. In the video at the liquor store they both seem to be very happy being with each other.

IMO
The thing about this is why would the murderer risk the chamber l chance of being seen by dropping her there? Why not leave her where she was killed or another location?

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The thing about this is why would the murderer risk the chamber l chance of being seen by dropping her there? Why not leave her where she was killed or another location?

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If only we could read the minds of killers, and know why they decide to do the things they do. I don't think reasonable minded people are able to get in the mind of someone who commits murder to begin to understand how they carryout their murders or dispose of bodies in the locations they choose.

Murderers are very high risk takers anyway. Why they take the risks they do I don't know, (part of the thrill?) but we have seen murderers kidnap people right off the street in broad daylight in congested areas. Does that make sense to any of us that they would take such high risks? I don't think it does make sense, but they do it anyway, and only they know why they did their crimes a certain way.

I can only speculate at best and they may have known when they disposed of her body the subdivision had little or no traffic at the time. So many murderers discard bodies and are never caught discarding the bodies and the bodies of the victims are found alone when the killer is long gone.

Imo, its painfully obvious that the killer did put her in this location and like many other murderers they were not seen by anyone.

JMO
 
The thing about this is why would the murderer risk the chamber l chance of being seen by dropping her there? Why not leave her where she was killed or another location?

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Could have all happened in a parked vehicle. That would make sense with the phone also being left so it never leaves the location. Either way it points to familiarity with the area.


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Just throwing my 2-cents in.

Why the lack of LE presence or apparent movement in the case?

Sadly, this reeks of small town bible belt ignorance to me. She ran an adult website, something the evangelicals in that town would greatly frown upon. While I know there are a few good LEO's around I also know that small town evangelical cops are unbelievably judgemental and have no problem doing the absolute minimum to solve a case that involves someone doing something they personally find "un-godly." I hope I'm wrong but sadly, I do not think I am. I've seen this type of thing play out many, many times.

Her body position.

If the reports are correct, that she was found with her upper body in the street and her lower body on the lawn then that precludes her being tossed from a car. If she were already dead and pushed from a vehicle she would have landed with her head in the grass, not on the pavement. The fact she was found facing her home with her head on the pavement seems to indicate to me that she was headed home or at least facing her home when she was beaned from behind, perhaps with the green bottle. I've never seen the brand of Absinthe that was reportedly found at the scene but I have seen a Jaiger bottle and those puppies are thick walled and heavy enough that you could smack someone on the back of the head and it wouldn't shatter.

The Husband


First, let me say, I've seen several comments disparaging his appearance and statements like "he's outta her league" or "he doesn't look like her type." I find those types of statements really untoward and hateful. She obviously saw something in the man that made her fall in love with him, to question her choice in mate is disrespectful and smacks of misandry. Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now.

It's been said by a few people that hubby was well aware of her business and as a few have pointed out she would need someone to take photos and operate her video camera for close-ups or other creative camera positions. While a lot of camera work can be done without the assistance of another person those types of cameras don't come cheap, if she were attempting to save money I don't think she would have popped for a camera that can easily run a few hundred dollars for a cheap version. I think we can clear hubby's involvement out of anger or jealousy over her business, besides the points I already made, since she did this from home he would have to have a been a barely functional dolt not to notice his wife running an adult web show business from her bedroom.

The bottle on the cell phone, that ones just weird. Almost sounds like a signature but I'm fairly certain it's not. I must admit that one little detail is really bugging me.

I know there is at least one person who gets worked up over the whole prostitution angle but I think it's an important aspect to consider. Just like with some strippers, people who do the webshows also do some escorting on the side. She could very easily have been doing that. Do I think she was doing it, I don't think so. I mean, look at the town, not exactly a hot bed for escort activity but lets say for a moment she did do that kind of work. She very easily could have met someone from town, maybe someone with some power in town like a local politician, senior LE person, a local minister; they did their thing and the person, afraid she would rat them out, murdered her and then used their connections with local LE to hush it up. Could have also just been a local person or maybe a local who viewed her website, offered to pay for services and then killed her for whatever reason. IF she was doing escorting she wouldn't even really need to leave her neighborhood, depending on how quiet it is and if the neighbors are nosy. She could have offered the person oral sex in his vehicle. Let me reiterate here, I DO NOT think she was escorting but again, she very well could have been, we simply don't know.

All of this is my speculation with the exception of things we know as factually correct.
 
This is the scenario I think happened. Someone on here who knows her socially said she drank Jagermeister which comes in a green bottle. I think someone kicked her out of their car like trash, then picked up her phone and her bottle of jagermeister and put it down in the street and took off.
My thoughts almost exactly.
Most likely scenario IMO is she met up with a “client”. He picked her up, and probably suggested they have a few shots which is why she only had her phone and a bottle of liquor, they drove to another location, engaged in activities that would cause her to be nearly naked as well as caught off guard, he killed her (probably in his car), drove back to where he picked her up (not knowing the area well, possibly got confused as to which house was hers in his rush to get out of there), parked, went to the passenger side, pulled her out, then grabbed her belongings and sat them on the ground together before leaving.


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Well, neighbors said they "heard no commotion" so no one admitted to her having been in their home:




So the girl who found her was "heading to work" and it says she was in the yard of the neighbor across the street. Doesn't sound like it's the home of the neighbor girl who found her but I don't see anything about the father driving her back to where the body was.

The girl who found her is only 12, no way she was going to work. I swear..these incompetent journalists who create their own facts drive me crazy.


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All I have to say at this time is that her husband obviously knew about her activities and most certainly participated, be it in the photography or otherwise.
Just because someone is OK with something or participates does not mean that they are not jealous or insecure. As we grow we change, something that was OK a year ago may not be OK with you today.
 
As far as the girl that found her, I am not certain of her age. Reports specifically say she was leaving for work and other reports say she was 12 years old. I think things are getting confused with her daughter that is 12 years old.
 
While I agree with some of what you say, I respectfully do not agree with your first paragraph,DAnthrplgst. Police officers come in contact quite often with victims who are not pillars of society, yet they investigate to obtain the evidence in order to bring justice to the victim/s no matter who those victims may be. Very few victims are perfect without flaws unless they are defenseless little children.

In fact I find this part of your post offensive since there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support these officers aren't trying to solve this case and aren't doing so because they may be Christians from the south. Christians also believe in Thou Shall Not Kill. They don't believe 'oh its okay if the victim has character flaws.'

You talk about them being judgmental without supporting evidence, and in turn you are as judgmental as you accuse them of being. It seems your first paragraph is meant to only demean those from the south and all of the police officers who may (or may not be) Christians who are working on this case.

Police officers want to solve cases. Period. That is what they do, and that is why cases are solved in the south no matter who the victim or perpetrators may be. Often the victims can be of less moral character with many victims being harmed or murdered due to being around those who sold drugs. Does it make them less worthy of justice because they may have been addicted to drugs? Absolutely not, and I read continuously where the police in the deep south have arrested murder suspects who murdered these victims. In fact it is well known that most in the justice system in the south are very hard on crime, and so are the punishments given if, and when, the perp is convicted.

I get it. You don't like Christians or cops from the south, since you quickly prejudge all of them with the same wide brush.

If it as if you say in your possibles then this case could be one that is hard to solve which, btw, happens all across the USA and not just in the south. There are many thousands of unsolved murder cases in the North, South, East, and West.

Imo, not one of them has to do with prejudices by LE against the victim, and it is because the evidence required has not yet been obtained.

JMO
 
As far as the girl that found her, I am not certain of her age. Reports specifically say she was leaving for work and other reports say she was 12 years old. I think things are getting confused with her daughter that is 12 years old.

The media has become known as being notoriously wrong...so much so that I see misinformation said or printed in their news articles all the time.

The young neighbor could not have been 12 years old if she was driving by at the time and saw Kat's body.

ITA! The media is getting it mixed up with Kat's daughter who is 12. The MSM has become so sloppy that I no longer even think of most as journalists and more like tabloid bottom feeders.

What it does show though that no one else from this subdivision must not have driven down that part of the street until the girl saw her body at 5am as she was heading to work.

IMO
 
Trying to psychology profile the suspect, running with my own theory that she was earlier picked up, then dumped off.

If the suspect had murder in mind, then why would they dump the victim where they did, instead of some rural hidden area like so many other murders. Did the suspect not have murder in mind, and something went terribly wrong in the heat of the moment, and they panicked. But the reported green bottle placed on top of the cell phone doesn't seem like something you would do in a panic/frenzied state. Almost cryptic message like.

I'm still of the belief that she knew her assailant, and they were familiar with the layout of the streets in her subdivision.

Regarding forensics, I think there is a vehicle out there with her blood DNA inside, due to substantial head trauma. And her remaining clothes, no doubt IMO were left in the possession of the suspect.
 
When thinking about "why would the killer leave her in this location or why would the killer leave the bottle where it is", it is worth considering that the killer could have been highly intoxicated at the time and thus not thinking clearly. Sometimes there isn't a real "why."

As for the police, this isn't the 1950-60s. While there are still issues, most law enforcement in the south is very professional and well trained. While this is the Bible belt, it still is the murder of a woman, a mother, and I believe law enforcement will do everything they can to solve it. Why are they being so quiet so far? They should be in my opinion. There are a lot of questions I have that I am sure police already have. Mostly surrounding the husband and the home. I'd also like to know what her BAC was.
 
No quick arrest means LE have lots and lots of work to do in tracking down visitors and subscribers to the victim's website. Even if they think they may know who did it they would need to be prepared to go to any future trial showing that they thoroughly investigated every lead in the case.

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Just as an observation of human nature, whether her husband knew about and approved of her online activities would not necessarily prevent speculation about "what else she was doing".
 
No quick arrest means LE have lots and lots of work to do in tracking down visitors and subscribers to the victim's website. Even if they think they may know who did it they would need to be prepared to go to any future trial showing that they thoroughly investigated every lead in the case.

Certainly possible. They could also be waiting for DNA evidence to come back from the lab. If there in no immediate threat to the public (and I doubt there is a threat to the public) then you don't want to arrest someone before you are completely ready.
 
I'm kind of appalled by the fact that some think she hooked up with a "client" and think that's who killed her? Just because someone posts provocative pictures of themselves on a website doesn't make them a prostitute. I have lots of scantly clad pictures posted on SM and I've never hooked up with anyone besides my significant other. This could have been done by a stalker in her neighborhood, who knows, maybe the "neighbor girls father" killed her? Until the police decide to release further details we can only go by speculation, there are a dozen of questions I want to ask but that won't bring her back, we just have to wait.

K West was a beautiful looking woman, ANYONE could have done this to her.
 
Just throwing my 2-cents in.

Why the lack of LE presence or apparent movement in the case?

Sadly, this reeks of small town bible belt ignorance to me. She ran an adult website, something the evangelicals in that town would greatly frown upon. While I know there are a few good LEO's around I also know that small town evangelical cops are unbelievably judgemental and have no problem doing the absolute minimum to solve a case that involves someone doing something they personally find "un-godly." I hope I'm wrong but sadly, I do not think I am. I've seen this type of thing play out many, many times.

Her body position.

If the reports are correct, that she was found with her upper body in the street and her lower body on the lawn then that precludes her being tossed from a car. If she were already dead and pushed from a vehicle she would have landed with her head in the grass, not on the pavement. The fact she was found facing her home with her head on the pavement seems to indicate to me that she was headed home or at least facing her home when she was beaned from behind, perhaps with the green bottle. I've never seen the brand of Absinthe that was reportedly found at the scene but I have seen a Jaiger bottle and those puppies are thick walled and heavy enough that you could smack someone on the back of the head and it wouldn't shatter.

The Husband


First, let me say, I've seen several comments disparaging his appearance and statements like "he's outta her league" or "he doesn't look like her type." I find those types of statements really untoward and hateful. She obviously saw something in the man that made her fall in love with him, to question her choice in mate is disrespectful and smacks of misandry. Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now.

It's been said by a few people that hubby was well aware of her business and as a few have pointed out she would need someone to take photos and operate her video camera for close-ups or other creative camera positions. While a lot of camera work can be done without the assistance of another person those types of cameras don't come cheap, if she were attempting to save money I don't think she would have popped for a camera that can easily run a few hundred dollars for a cheap version. I think we can clear hubby's involvement out of anger or jealousy over her business, besides the points I already made, since she did this from home he would have to have a been a barely functional dolt not to notice his wife running an adult web show business from her bedroom.

The bottle on the cell phone, that ones just weird. Almost sounds like a signature but I'm fairly certain it's not. I must admit that one little detail is really bugging me.

I know there is at least one person who gets worked up over the whole prostitution angle but I think it's an important aspect to consider. Just like with some strippers, people who do the webshows also do some escorting on the side. She could very easily have been doing that. Do I think she was doing it, I don't think so. I mean, look at the town, not exactly a hot bed for escort activity but lets say for a moment she did do that kind of work. She very easily could have met someone from town, maybe someone with some power in town like a local politician, senior LE person, a local minister; they did their thing and the person, afraid she would rat them out, murdered her and then used their connections with local LE to hush it up. Could have also just been a local person or maybe a local who viewed her website, offered to pay for services and then killed her for whatever reason. IF she was doing escorting she wouldn't even really need to leave her neighborhood, depending on how quiet it is and if the neighbors are nosy. She could have offered the person oral sex in his vehicle. Let me reiterate here, I DO NOT think she was escorting but again, she very well could have been, we simply don't know.

All of this is my speculation with the exception of things we know as factually correct.

Maybe whoever dumped her removed her from their vehicle by her legs/feet because she was bleeding and that is why she was positioned that way. Idk, just a thought.
 
I'm kind of appalled by the fact that some think she hooked up with a "client" and think that's who killed her? Just because someone posts provocative pictures of themselves on a website doesn't make them a prostitute. I have lots of scantly clad pictures posted on SM and I've never hooked up with anyone besides my significant other. This could have been done by a stalker in her neighborhood, who knows, maybe the "neighbor girls father" killed her? Until the police decide to release further details we can only go by speculation, there are a dozen of questions I want to ask but that won't bring her back, we just have to wait.

K West was a beautiful looking woman, ANYONE could have done this to her.
But do you have a paid website where people can PM you?

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