1 00:00:11,862 --> 00:00:15,413 >> PEOPLE ARE SO MUCH MORETHAN HOW THEY'RE TRYING TO 2 00:00:15,448 --> 00:00:16,931 SURVIVE THIS WORLD. 3 00:00:16,964 --> 00:00:24,585 I DEFINITELY WISH MY EXPERIENCEHAD GONE DIFFERENTLY, BUT I'M 4 00:00:24,620 --> 00:00:27,240 PRETTY PROUD OF WHO I AM TODAY. 5 00:00:27,274 --> 00:00:30,448 [ SIREN WAILING]BEING ON THE FRONTLINES 6 00:00:30,481 --> 00:00:33,240 IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE MIDDLEOF A PANDEMIC AS A PARAMEDIC IS 7 00:00:33,274 --> 00:00:38,412 A VERY SCARY JOB. 8 00:00:38,448 --> 00:00:44,551 I WASN'T MAKING ENDS MEET,SO I MADE THE DECISION TO POST 9 00:00:44,585 --> 00:00:54,067 NUDE PHOTOS OF MYSELF ON THEINTERNET TO MAKE MORE MONEY. 10 00:00:54,103 --> 00:00:58,000 AND I WAS DEFINITELY CONCERNEDABOUT THE RISKS OF BEING SO 11 00:00:58,033 --> 00:01:00,240 EXPOSED ON THE INTERNET. 12 00:01:00,274 --> 00:01:06,102 AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT'S GOINGTO HAPPEN. 13 00:01:06,137 --> 00:01:09,067 SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT KATWEST, AND I THINK ABOUT WHERE 14 00:01:09,102 --> 00:01:14,034 SHE WOULD BE TODAY AND HOW MUCHMORE OF HER LIFE SHE COULD HAVE 15 00:01:14,067 --> 00:01:16,861 FULFILLED. 16 00:01:16,896 --> 00:01:21,067 [ TRAIN WHISTLE BLARES]>> I STARTED GETTING FACEBOOK 17 00:01:28,310 --> 00:01:31,379 MESSAGES THAT A MURDER HADHAPPENED IN CALERA. 18 00:01:31,412 --> 00:01:37,516 YOU KNOW, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN,NUDE IN A STREET, IN A NICE 19 00:01:37,551 --> 00:01:38,896 SUBDIVISION. 20 00:01:38,930 --> 00:01:41,930 THAT IS WHAT DOESN'T HAPPENEVERY DAY AROUND HERE, AND 21 00:01:41,965 --> 00:01:45,033 THAT'S WHAT DROVE THIS STORY. 22 00:01:45,067 --> 00:01:53,930 KAT WEST, SHE WAS 42, WAS FOUNDDEAD ON JANUARY 13, 2018. 23 00:01:53,965 --> 00:01:57,137 SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. 24 00:01:57,171 --> 00:02:02,102 SHE LOOKED A LITTLE BIT LIKEMARILYN MONROE. 25 00:02:02,137 --> 00:02:03,034 >> FEMALE IN THE ROADWAY, NAKED. 26 00:02:03,067 --> 00:02:05,861 C.P.R. NO LONGER IN PROGRESS. 27 00:02:05,896 --> 00:02:06,965 FEMALE NOT BREATHING. 28 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,137 >> Reporter: YOU BELIEVE IT WASMURDER. 29 00:02:08,171 --> 00:02:09,620 >> I DO. 30 00:02:09,655 --> 00:02:13,448 >> IT'S A MYSTERIOUS MURDERCASE: A MARRIED MOM FOUND DEAD 31 00:02:13,481 --> 00:02:15,000 OUTSIDE HER HOME. 32 00:02:15,033 --> 00:02:17,620 >> WE DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT KATWEST AT ALL, AND WE CERTAINLY 33 00:02:17,655 --> 00:02:21,861 DIDN'T KNOW THAT HER HUSBANDJEFF WAS A SUSPECT. 34 00:02:21,896 --> 00:02:25,965 >> JEFF COULD NOT HAVE POSSIBLYDONE IT. 35 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,826 I BELIEVE KAT WAS MURDERED, BUTI DO NOT BELIEVE THAT IT WAS BY 36 00:02:29,861 --> 00:02:31,137 HER HUSBAND. 37 00:02:31,171 --> 00:02:37,723 >> IT REALLY TURNED OUT THAT KATWAS A LOT MORE THAN JUST A WIFE 38 00:02:37,758 --> 00:02:38,965 AND A STAY-AT-HOME MOM. 39 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,930 >> KAT WAS THE VERY OUT THERE,EXUBERANT, LIVELY. 40 00:02:43,965 --> 00:02:47,861 SHE WAS THE LIMELIGHT OFEVERYTHING THAT WE DID. 41 00:02:47,896 --> 00:02:49,378 >> KAT WEST WAS POSTING PICTURESON ONLYFANS, WHICH IS A WEB SITE 42 00:02:49,413 --> 00:02:56,758 WHERE PEOPLE PAY A SUBSCRIPTIONTO SEE RACY PHOTOS. 43 00:02:56,793 --> 00:03:01,826 IT'S SORT OF THE HAPPY MEDIANBETWEEN PORN AND "THE BRADY 44 00:03:01,861 --> 00:03:02,895 BUNCH." 45 00:03:02,931 --> 00:03:06,861 >> SHE HAD SEVERAL HUNDREDFOLLOWERS. 46 00:03:06,895 --> 00:03:09,103 >> EVERYBODY WAS A SUSPECT, TOBEGIN WITH. 47 00:03:09,137 --> 00:03:14,137 >> ONE OF HER SUBSCRIBERS, DIDTHEY COME THROUGH WITH RAGE OR 48 00:03:14,171 --> 00:03:19,033 JEALOUSY OR WANTING SOMETHINGTHAT THEY COULDN'T HAVE? 49 00:03:19,068 --> 00:03:20,758 >> WE WERE CONCERNED. 50 00:03:20,793 --> 00:03:24,000 DO WE HAVE SOMEBODY OUT THERETHAT'S ACTUALLY KILLING PEOPLE? 51 00:03:24,033 --> 00:03:25,758 >> Reporter: HAD YOU HEARD OFONLYFANS? 52 00:03:25,793 --> 00:03:27,688 >> NO, MA'AM. 53 00:03:27,723 --> 00:03:30,723 THERE WAS A LOT OF THINGSI LEARNED IN THIS CASE. 54 00:04:24,447 --> 00:04:29,103 >> Reporter: ONE LOOK AT HERONLINE PRESENCE MADE IT CLEAR 55 00:04:29,137 --> 00:04:35,067 KATHLEEN WEST PUT THE "SOCIAL"IN "SOCIAL MEDIA." 56 00:04:35,103 --> 00:04:39,240 >> IT WAS OUT THERE FOR THEWHOLE WORLD TO SEE. 57 00:04:39,274 --> 00:04:41,379 >> Reporter: AND FRIENDS LIKEBRITTANY DRIESLER SAY KAT WAS 58 00:04:41,413 --> 00:04:44,343 VERY EXTROVERTED. 59 00:04:44,379 --> 00:04:47,240 IN THE REAL WORLD, SHE WASALWAYS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY, AS 60 00:04:47,274 --> 00:04:48,240 WELL. 61 00:04:48,274 --> 00:04:51,723 >> KAT WOULD GET ON STAGES ANDSING. 62 00:04:51,757 --> 00:04:54,343 SHE COULDN'T SING FOR THE LIFEOF HER, BUT SHE WOULD SING! 63 00:04:54,379 --> 00:04:59,310 >> KAT WAS PROUD OF WHO SHE WAS. 64 00:04:59,343 --> 00:05:04,310 >> Reporter: SO, ON JANUARY 13,2018, WHEN THE 42-YEAR-OLD WIFE 65 00:05:04,343 --> 00:05:09,310 AND MOTHER WIDELY KNOWN AS "KAT"WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE STREET 66 00:05:09,343 --> 00:05:13,240 NEAR HER ALABAMA HOME, VETERANREPORTER AND CBS CONSULTANT 67 00:05:13,274 --> 00:05:17,206 CAROL ROBINSON SMELLED A STORY. 68 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,206 IN THE TIGHT-KNIT BIRMINGHAMSUBURBS, SHE'S KNOWN AS THE 69 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,310 "COCO CHANEL OF CRIME." 70 00:05:24,343 --> 00:05:28,654 >> I DON'T LET WHAT I COVERDICTATE WHAT I WEAR. 71 00:05:28,689 --> 00:05:30,274 >> Reporter: SHE LATER ARRIVEDAT THE SCENE AND STARTED HUNTING 72 00:05:30,310 --> 00:05:36,274 TO SEE IF KAT'S PAST COULD HELPEXPLAIN HER DEATH. 73 00:05:36,310 --> 00:05:38,033 >> SHE LOVED TO BE OUTSIDE. 74 00:05:38,067 --> 00:05:38,862 >> YES. 75 00:05:38,896 --> 00:05:40,413 >> THAT WAS HER BIG DEAL. 76 00:05:40,447 --> 00:05:41,930 SHE HAD A SWING SET. 77 00:05:41,965 --> 00:05:44,586 >> Reporter: KAT'S PARENTS,NANCY AND JOHN MARTIN, SAY AS A 78 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:50,172 KID IN FLORIDA, SHE DOTED ON HERDOLLS. 79 00:05:50,206 --> 00:05:52,862 AND DID SHE WANT TO BE A MOMSOMEDAY? 80 00:05:52,896 --> 00:05:53,240 >> ABSOLUTELY. 81 00:05:53,274 --> 00:05:56,274 YES. 82 00:05:56,310 --> 00:05:58,896 >> WHEN SHE GOT A LITTLE BITOLDER, SHE WANTED TO DO 83 00:05:58,930 --> 00:06:00,172 MODELING. 84 00:06:00,206 --> 00:06:02,689 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THEOBSESSION WITH MARILYN MONROE? 85 00:06:02,723 --> 00:06:04,447 >> [ LAUGHS]SHE KIND OF LOOKED LIKE HER, SHE 86 00:06:04,482 --> 00:06:05,862 SAYS. 87 00:06:05,896 --> 00:06:09,137 SHE TRIED TO RECREATE SOME OFHER PHOTOS, HER HAIRDOS. 88 00:06:09,172 --> 00:06:11,516 SHE LOVED HER. 89 00:06:11,550 --> 00:06:13,137 >> SHE WAS OBSESSED WITH MARILYNMONROE AND WAS TRYING TO EMULATE 90 00:06:13,172 --> 00:06:17,067 HER IN EVERY WAY. 91 00:06:17,103 --> 00:06:20,033 >> Reporter: AS CAROL ROBINSONRETRACED THE LINES OF KAT'S 92 00:06:20,067 --> 00:06:21,033 LIFE... 93 00:06:21,067 --> 00:06:23,000 >> THERE WERE ALWAYS SELF-ESTEEMISSUES THERE. 94 00:06:23,033 --> 00:06:26,033 >> Reporter: ...SHE REALIZED HERRESEMBLANCE TO THE TROUBLED 95 00:06:26,067 --> 00:06:29,067 MOVIE STAR WAS MORE THAN SKINDEEP. 96 00:06:29,103 --> 00:06:33,067 >> SHE CRAVED ADULATION FROMSOME PEOPLE, WHETHER SHE KNEW 97 00:06:33,103 --> 00:06:34,172 THEM OR NOT. 98 00:06:34,206 --> 00:06:36,103 >> YOU'D TELL HER SHE'SBEAUTIFUL, SHE SAYS, "YOU'RE 99 00:06:36,137 --> 00:06:38,343 JUST MY MOM AND DAD." 100 00:06:38,379 --> 00:06:41,033 >> Reporter: AS TIME WENT ON,KAT'S PARENTS SAY HER FEELINGS 101 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:45,033 OF ISOLATION, SELF-DOUBT, ANDDEPRESSION SPIRALED OUT OF 102 00:06:45,067 --> 00:06:48,067 CONTROL. 103 00:06:48,103 --> 00:06:49,516 >> I DON'T KNOW HOW MANYDIFFERENT PLACES WE TOOK HER TO. 104 00:06:49,550 --> 00:06:52,343 >> SHE WENT TO A LOT OFCOUNSELING. 105 00:06:52,379 --> 00:06:54,067 >> Reporter: IT WAS A TOUGH FEWYEARS. 106 00:06:54,103 --> 00:06:59,689 HER PARENTS SAY SHE WAS BATTLINGBIPOLAR DISORDER AND DRINKING 107 00:06:59,723 --> 00:07:01,240 TOO MUCH. 108 00:07:01,274 --> 00:07:05,033 BUT BY 2004, THE BROKEN PIECESOF KAT'S LIFE FINALLY BEGAN TO 109 00:07:05,067 --> 00:07:06,067 FALL INTO PLACE. 110 00:07:06,103 --> 00:07:09,033 IT HAPPENED AT A SUPER BOWLPARTY. 111 00:07:09,067 --> 00:07:12,033 >> AND THAT'S WHERE SHE METJEFF. 112 00:07:12,067 --> 00:07:16,689 >> Reporter: KAT STRUCK UP ACONVERSATION WITH A LOCAL ARMY 113 00:07:16,723 --> 00:07:17,826 RECRUITER NAMED JEFF WEST. 114 00:07:17,862 --> 00:07:19,896 >> THEY FELL IN LOVE ON THEIRFIRST DATE. 115 00:07:19,930 --> 00:07:20,896 >> Reporter: IT WAS REALLY LOVEAT FIRST SIGHT? 116 00:07:20,930 --> 00:07:22,172 >> YES. 117 00:07:22,206 --> 00:07:23,516 >> YES, IT WAS. 118 00:07:23,550 --> 00:07:28,654 >> WITHIN THE YEAR,THEY WERE MARRIED IN LAS VEGAS. 119 00:07:28,689 --> 00:07:31,826 >> Reporter: THEY MOVED AROUNDTHE COUNTRY FOR JEFF'S JOB, AND, 120 00:07:31,862 --> 00:07:35,481 IN 2005, THEY HAD A DAUGHTER,LOLA. 121 00:07:35,516 --> 00:07:40,896 >> LOLA WAS HER LIGHT, LOLA WASHER GIFT, AND SHE ADORED HER 122 00:07:40,930 --> 00:07:42,240 DAUGHTER. 123 00:07:42,274 --> 00:07:44,896 >> Reporter: IN 2011, THE WESTFAMILY MOVED TO SOUTHERN 124 00:07:44,930 --> 00:07:48,896 CALIFORNIA WHERE ARMY VETERANBRITTANY DRIESLER'S HUSBAND WAS 125 00:07:48,930 --> 00:07:52,206 THINKING OF ENLISTING. 126 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,930 AT THE RECRUITING STATION,BRITTANY SAYS JEFF WEST 127 00:07:53,965 --> 00:07:57,757 BASICALLY HAD HER HUSBAND ATHELLO. 128 00:07:57,793 --> 00:07:58,930 WHAT WAS YOUR IMPRESSION OF HIM? 129 00:07:58,965 --> 00:08:03,723 >> HE WAS JUST SUPER REASSURINGAND NICE. 130 00:08:03,757 --> 00:08:05,103 HE WAS JUST NICE. 131 00:08:05,137 --> 00:08:08,343 >> Reporter: SO NICE, SHE SAYS,THAT HE EVEN INVITED THE 132 00:08:08,379 --> 00:08:09,206 DRIESLERS TO HIS HOME. 133 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,964 HIS WIFE KAT ANSWERED THE DOOR. 134 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,862 >> SHE WAS JUST IN HER TANK TOPAND SHORTS AND REALLY HAPPY, 135 00:08:16,896 --> 00:08:17,930 BUBBLY AND, "HEY, GIRL!"RIGHT OFF THE BAT, SHE WAS LIKE, 136 00:08:17,964 --> 00:08:21,137 "YOU WANT A DRINK?">> Reporter: BRITTANY SAYS, AS 137 00:08:21,172 --> 00:08:24,826 FAR AS SHE COULD TELL KAT ANDJEFF WEST WERE A HAPPY IF 138 00:08:24,862 --> 00:08:27,896 SOMEWHAT UNLIKELY COUPLE. 139 00:08:27,930 --> 00:08:32,724 >> SEEING HOW KAT CARRIEDHERSELF AND WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE 140 00:08:32,758 --> 00:08:35,861 AND THEN SEEING JEFF, I KNOWOPPOSITES ATTRACT, BUT I WAS 141 00:08:35,895 --> 00:08:44,206 LIKE, "THAT GUY PULLED THATGIRL? 142 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,654 HUH." 143 00:08:45,688 --> 00:08:47,309 YOU KNOW, IT NEVER REALLYMADE SENSE TO ME UNTIL I STARTED 144 00:08:47,344 --> 00:08:48,793 GETTING TO KNOW THEM MORE. 145 00:08:48,826 --> 00:08:49,172 >> Reporter: YOU WOULD NOTDESCRIBE THIS AS A CONVENTIONAL 146 00:08:49,206 --> 00:08:51,274 MARRIAGE. 147 00:08:51,309 --> 00:08:52,447 >> DEFINITELY NOT! 148 00:08:52,481 --> 00:08:53,826 [ LAUGHS]>> Reporter: WHEN IT CAME TO THE 149 00:08:53,861 --> 00:08:56,688 UNSPOKEN RULES OF ENTERTAINING,SHE ADMITS KAT WAS SO COLORFUL 150 00:08:56,724 --> 00:08:59,688 THAT SHE SOMETIMES COLOREDOUTSIDE THE LINES. 151 00:08:59,724 --> 00:09:05,793 >> SHE WOULD JUMP FROM THEKITCHEN COUNTER TO THE SOFA 152 00:09:05,826 --> 00:09:07,102 AND, SHIRTLESS, BRALESS. 153 00:09:07,136 --> 00:09:08,033 >> Reporter: WAIT, IN FRONT OFYOU AND YOUR HUSBAND? 154 00:09:08,067 --> 00:09:09,000 >> YES! 155 00:09:09,033 --> 00:09:10,826 MY HUSBAND WOULD GO, "OH MYGOSH!" 156 00:09:10,861 --> 00:09:12,654 [ LAUGHS]>>> Reporter: THE COUPLES HUNG 157 00:09:12,688 --> 00:09:16,654 OUT AT HOME BUT ALSO STARTEDGOING TO BARS AND CLUBS. 158 00:09:16,688 --> 00:09:18,136 >> SHE'D BE LIVELY, ANIMATED. 159 00:09:18,172 --> 00:09:20,102 HE WOULD JUST BE SITTING ON THECOUCH, RELAXING, HAVING HIS 160 00:09:20,136 --> 00:09:21,447 DRINK. 161 00:09:21,481 --> 00:09:23,758 >> Reporter: DID YOU EVER SEETHE TWO OF THEM FIGHT? 162 00:09:23,793 --> 00:09:28,654 >> KAT WOULD FIGHT, JEFF WOULDNOT. 163 00:09:28,688 --> 00:09:29,724 KAT WOULD GET EMOTIONAL. 164 00:09:29,758 --> 00:09:32,654 WHEN SHE WAS DRUNK, SHE WOULDGET LOUD. 165 00:09:32,688 --> 00:09:34,033 SHE WOULD GET FEISTY. 166 00:09:34,067 --> 00:09:38,517 BUT HE WOULD SIT THERE AND JUSTSAY, "OKAY, BOO BOO, OKAY. 167 00:09:38,551 --> 00:09:39,861 I LOVE YOU. 168 00:09:39,895 --> 00:09:41,309 ALL RIGHT, BABY GIRL." 169 00:09:41,344 --> 00:09:43,274 >> Reporter: YOU NEVER SAW ANOUNCE OF JEALOUSY FROM HIM? 170 00:09:43,309 --> 00:09:44,033 >> NEVER. 171 00:09:44,067 --> 00:09:46,274 [ LAUGHS]NEVER. 172 00:09:46,309 --> 00:09:47,688 >> THAT SURPRISED ME BECAUSEI DON'T THINK MANY MEN WOULD 173 00:09:47,724 --> 00:09:50,688 FEEL THAT WAY. 174 00:09:50,724 --> 00:09:53,654 >> Reporter: CAROL SAYS JEFF WASPROUD OF HAVING AN ATTRACTIVE 175 00:09:53,688 --> 00:09:56,413 WIFE. 176 00:09:56,447 --> 00:09:59,654 IN 2014, THE WESTS HAD MOVED TOALABAMA WHERE HE HAD A JOB AS A 177 00:09:59,688 --> 00:10:01,172 CAMPUS POLICE OFFICER. 178 00:10:01,206 --> 00:10:05,620 THE COUPLE ALWAYS MADE TIME TOBE TOGETHER WITH A REGULAR DATE 179 00:10:05,654 --> 00:10:09,965 NIGHT, INCLUDING ON THE NIGHT OFJANUARY 12, 2018. 180 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,447 JEFF'S PARENTS HAD THEN-12-YEAR-OLD LOLA FOR THE EVENING. 181 00:10:14,481 --> 00:10:16,447 >> THEY GO OUT TO A RESTAURANT,YOU KNOW. 182 00:10:16,481 --> 00:10:19,517 THEY HAVE SOME DRINKS ANDDINNER. 183 00:10:19,551 --> 00:10:23,551 >> Reporter: AFTER DINNER, THEYSTOPPED AT A LIQUOR STORE. 184 00:10:23,586 --> 00:10:26,481 SECURITY CAMERAS SHOW THE COUPLESHOPPING, APPARENTLY WITHOUT 185 00:10:26,517 --> 00:10:28,033 A CARE IN THE WORLD. 186 00:10:28,067 --> 00:10:29,172 >> EVERYTHING SEEMED FINE. 187 00:10:29,206 --> 00:10:32,413 AT ONE POINT, HE EVEN PATTED HERON THE BUTT. 188 00:10:32,447 --> 00:10:35,517 >> Reporter: BUT IT WOULD BE THELAST TIME KAT WEST WOULD BE SEEN 189 00:10:35,551 --> 00:10:38,344 ALIVE. 190 00:10:56,067 --> 00:11:00,688 >> I JUST WAS SHOCKED, BAFFLED. 191 00:11:00,724 --> 00:11:02,102 I DON'T BELIEVE IT. 192 00:11:02,136 --> 00:11:03,793 >> Reporter: WHEN BRITTANYDRIESLER LEARNED OF KAT'S DEATH, 193 00:11:03,826 --> 00:11:07,033 SHE IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED JEFFWEST. 194 00:11:07,067 --> 00:11:08,688 >> "WHAT HAPPENED? 195 00:11:08,724 --> 00:11:10,000 HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?"AND HIS ANSWER WAS JUST, "I 196 00:11:10,033 --> 00:11:12,654 DON'T KNOW." 197 00:11:12,688 --> 00:11:15,551 >> Reporter: NEITHER DIDMACORSHA PURIFOY. 198 00:11:15,586 --> 00:11:16,654 >> IT WAS DARK. 199 00:11:16,688 --> 00:11:17,724 IT WAS COLD. 200 00:11:17,758 --> 00:11:20,654 I WASN'T SURE, LIKE, WHAT I WASSEEING. 201 00:11:20,688 --> 00:11:24,274 >> Reporter: SHE'D BEEN DRIVINGTO WORK BEFORE DAWN THAT DAY 202 00:11:24,309 --> 00:11:25,724 WHEN SHE SPOTTED SOMETHING. 203 00:11:25,758 --> 00:11:33,654 >> I THINK I SEE A PERSON LAYINGIN THE ROAD WELL, HALFWAY. 204 00:11:33,688 --> 00:11:35,551 >> Reporter: MACORSHA WENT HOMETO GET HER PARENTS. 205 00:11:35,586 --> 00:11:36,517 THEY RETURNED TO THE SCENE. 206 00:11:36,551 --> 00:11:39,654 >> HER BODY WAS FROZEN, LIKEFROZEN. 207 00:11:39,688 --> 00:11:42,517 I WAS TRAUMATIZED. 208 00:11:42,551 --> 00:11:43,724 I WAS JUST IN THE CAR, CRYING. 209 00:11:43,758 --> 00:11:45,033 >> Reporter: MACORSHA'S MOTHERCALLED 911. 210 00:11:45,067 --> 00:11:47,931 >> THEY ASKED TO SEE IF SHE WASBREATHING OR NOT. 211 00:11:47,965 --> 00:11:49,067 SHE WASN'T. 212 00:11:49,102 --> 00:11:55,136 AND WE JUST WAITED FOR THEPOLICE TO GET THERE. 213 00:11:55,172 --> 00:11:56,931 >> Reporter: CALERA POLICESERGEANT MIKE MEHLHOFF, A 214 00:11:56,965 --> 00:12:00,654 VETERAN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR,ARRIVED ABOUT 30 MINUTES LATER. 215 00:12:00,688 --> 00:12:03,620 >> LOOKING AT THE SCENE,KATHLEEN'S HEAD IS LAYING IN THE 216 00:12:03,654 --> 00:12:04,517 ROAD. 217 00:12:04,551 --> 00:12:07,724 HER BODY IS ACTUALLY LAYING INTHE GRASS. 218 00:12:07,758 --> 00:12:09,551 >> Reporter: AND THERE WASSOMETHING ELSE HE NOTICED RIGHT 219 00:12:09,586 --> 00:12:11,033 AWAY. 220 00:12:11,067 --> 00:12:14,551 >> IT DID APPEAR THAT THE BODYHAD BEEN MOVED MORE THAN ONCE. 221 00:12:14,586 --> 00:12:18,551 >> Reporter: KAT WEST WAS FOUNDLYING IN A POOL OF BLOOD ACROSS 222 00:12:18,586 --> 00:12:19,826 THE STREET FROM HER HOUSE. 223 00:12:19,861 --> 00:12:24,481 MEHLHOFF NOTICED THERE WASANOTHER BLOOD POOL NEARBY. 224 00:12:24,517 --> 00:12:27,586 NEXT TO KAT'S BODY: HER CELLPHONE, AND AN OPEN BOTTLE OF 225 00:12:27,620 --> 00:12:31,379 ABSINTHE LIQUOR, THE KIND SHEAND HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN SEEN 226 00:12:31,413 --> 00:12:32,861 PURCHASING THE NIGHT BEFORE. 227 00:12:32,895 --> 00:12:35,965 >> THE ABSINTHE BOTTLE, IT WASJUST PROPPED UP ON THE PHONE 228 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,481 JUST LIKE THAT. 229 00:12:37,517 --> 00:12:39,895 IT JUST DID NOT SEEM RIGHT THATIT WOULD HAVE LANDED IN SUCH A 230 00:12:39,931 --> 00:12:42,551 WAY IF IT-- OTHER THAN BEINGSTAGED. 231 00:12:42,586 --> 00:12:45,240 >> Reporter: CAROL ROBINSON, WHOSAW THE CRIME SCENE PHOTOS, ALSO 232 00:12:45,274 --> 00:12:46,344 THOUGHT IT LOOKED STAGED. 233 00:12:46,379 --> 00:12:50,033 >> THAT BOTTLE WAS PLACED ON THEPHONE. 234 00:12:50,067 --> 00:12:51,240 >> Reporter: BY SOMEBODY. 235 00:12:51,274 --> 00:12:52,688 >> BY SOMEBODY. 236 00:12:52,724 --> 00:12:56,379 >> Reporter: SHE SAYS THERE WASSOMEBODY AT THE SCENE WHOSE 237 00:12:56,413 --> 00:12:57,758 BEHAVIOR CAUGHT AUTHORITIES'ATTENTION. 238 00:12:57,793 --> 00:13:01,481 >> JEFF WEST STANDING IN THEDOORWAY. 239 00:13:01,517 --> 00:13:04,413 AT ONE POINT, HE WAS ON THEPORCH, SMOKING A CIGARETTE AND 240 00:13:04,447 --> 00:13:08,447 WATCHING. 241 00:13:08,481 --> 00:13:10,344 >> Reporter: AND WHEN MEHLHOFFSPOKE TO JEFF INSIDE... 242 00:13:10,379 --> 00:13:14,447 >> HIS BEHAVIOR WAS NOT WHAT IEXPECTED IT TO BE, KNOWING THAT 243 00:13:14,481 --> 00:13:15,586 HIS WIFE WAS OUTSIDE. 244 00:13:15,620 --> 00:13:16,620 >> Reporter: WHAT WAS YOURREACTION TO IT? 245 00:13:16,654 --> 00:13:21,413 >> IT WAS, EVERYBODY GRIEVES INA DIFFERENT WAY. 246 00:13:21,447 --> 00:13:24,309 AND THAT WAS SOMETHING I KEPTTELLING MYSELF. 247 00:13:24,344 --> 00:13:26,931 >> Reporter: KAT HAD A ROUGHLYTWO-INCH GASH ON THE LEFT SIDE 248 00:13:26,965 --> 00:13:28,033 OF HER HEAD. 249 00:13:28,067 --> 00:13:29,654 THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS BLUNTFORCE TRAUMA. 250 00:13:29,688 --> 00:13:32,413 >> THE INJURY THAT SHE SUFFEREDWAS ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY FRACTURE 251 00:13:32,447 --> 00:13:34,826 THE SKULL. 252 00:13:34,861 --> 00:13:39,344 >> Reporter: THE AUTOPSY SHOWEDSIGNS OF SEX, BUT THERE WAS NO 253 00:13:39,379 --> 00:13:41,274 INDICATION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. 254 00:13:41,309 --> 00:13:45,102 ALSO, HER BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELWAS NEARLY THREE TIMES THE LEGAL 255 00:13:45,136 --> 00:13:48,206 LIMIT. 256 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,067 STILL, THE MEDICAL EXAMINERCOULD NOT SAY EXACTLY HOW KAT 257 00:13:51,102 --> 00:13:52,206 SUSTAINED THE INJURY. 258 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,206 >> THE MANNER OF DEATH WASUNDETERMINED. 259 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,724 >> Reporter: WAS IT AN ACCIDENT? 260 00:13:58,758 --> 00:14:03,102 WAS KAT SO INTOXICATED THAT SHEFELL AND CRACKED HER HEAD? 261 00:14:03,136 --> 00:14:04,000 OR WAS IT MURDER? 262 00:14:04,033 --> 00:14:07,931 AND IF SO, WHO KILLED KAT WEST? 263 00:14:07,965 --> 00:14:10,240 WHILE AUTHORITIES SEARCHED THENEIGHBORHOOD FOR CLUES AND 264 00:14:10,274 --> 00:14:12,206 WITNESSES, JEFF WENT TOHEADQUARTERS. 265 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,274 POLICE SAY HE STAYED FOR ABOUTSIX HOURS. 266 00:14:15,309 --> 00:14:16,172 WAS JEFF COOPERATIVE? 267 00:14:16,206 --> 00:14:18,379 >> ABSOLUTELY. 268 00:14:18,413 --> 00:14:23,447 >> Reporter: JEFF WAS ADAMANTWITH POLICE HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT 269 00:14:23,481 --> 00:14:24,620 HAD HAPPENED TO KAT. 270 00:14:24,654 --> 00:14:28,136 HE SPECULATED SHE MAY HAVE DIEDBY ACCIDENT. 271 00:14:28,172 --> 00:14:31,067 HE ALSO SAID THEIR MARRIAGE WASIN A GOOD PLACE. 272 00:14:31,102 --> 00:14:36,206 POLICE LATER DISCOVERED WHAT THECOUPLE'S FRIENDS ALREADY KNEW. 273 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,240 >> I THINK IT WOULD BE FAIR TOCHARACTERIZE HER AS AN 274 00:14:39,274 --> 00:14:40,102 EXHIBITIONIST. 275 00:14:40,136 --> 00:14:43,826 SHE ENJOYED THE ATTENTION. 276 00:14:43,861 --> 00:14:47,793 >> Reporter: JEFF REVEALED HEWOULD ACTUALLY PHOTOGRAPH KAT 277 00:14:47,826 --> 00:14:49,654 AND HELP HER POST SUGGESTIVEPHOTOS ONLINE WHERE HUNDREDS OF 278 00:14:49,688 --> 00:14:54,688 PAYING SUBSCRIBERS KNEW HER AS"KITTY KAT WEST." 279 00:14:54,724 --> 00:14:57,136 >> SHE WAS VERY OUT LOUD ABOUTIT. 280 00:14:57,172 --> 00:14:59,481 SHE WAS MAKING MONEY. 281 00:14:59,517 --> 00:15:03,206 >> Reporter: BUT BRITTANY SAYS,FOR KAT, IT WAS ABOUT A LOT MORE 282 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:04,826 THAN MONEY. 283 00:15:04,861 --> 00:15:10,793 >> KAT, WHEN NOT BEHIND THE WEBSITE, WAS NOT ALWAYS CONFIDENT. 284 00:15:10,826 --> 00:15:12,102 YES, YOU HAVE YOUR HUSBAND, BUTYOU ALWAYS WANT TO BE PRETTY TO 285 00:15:12,136 --> 00:15:15,172 OTHERS. 286 00:15:15,206 --> 00:15:17,136 >> Reporter: AND REMARKABLY,JEFF SEEMED TO LOVE IT. 287 00:15:17,172 --> 00:15:24,000 >> JEFF GOT THE BEST OF BOTHWORLDS. 288 00:15:24,033 --> 00:15:25,517 HE WAS ABLE TO BE WITH HIS WIFE. 289 00:15:25,551 --> 00:15:30,240 SHE GOT WHAT SHE WANTED, WHICHWAS, "I GET TO MAKE MY MONEY, I 290 00:15:30,274 --> 00:15:31,965 GET TO SHOW OFF WHAT I HAVE,AND HE'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE ME." 291 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:39,067 >> Reporter: BRITTANY SAYS, BY2018, KAT'S ONLINE ACTIVITY HAD 292 00:15:39,102 --> 00:15:42,826 REALLY RAMPED UP. 293 00:15:42,861 --> 00:15:44,379 SHE'D BEEN USING THATSUBSCRIPTION-ONLY WEB SITE, 294 00:15:44,413 --> 00:15:49,965 ONLYFANS, TO SHARE ADULT PHOTOSAND VIDEOS. 295 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:55,620 >> SHE WAS STARTING TO GET KNEE-DEEP IN THAT TYPE OF INDUSTRY. 296 00:15:55,654 --> 00:15:57,379 >> Reporter: AND WITH ONLYFANSCAME A NEW FEATURE FOR KAT: 297 00:15:57,413 --> 00:16:01,758 PROVIDERS AND SUBSCRIBERS COULDCOMMUNICATE. 298 00:16:01,793 --> 00:16:06,551 SUBSCRIBERS COULD ALSO MAKEREQUESTS. 299 00:16:06,586 --> 00:16:09,033 HAD YOU HEARD OF ONLYFANS? 300 00:16:09,067 --> 00:16:11,000 >> NO, MA'AM. 301 00:16:11,033 --> 00:16:12,895 >> Reporter: MEHLHOFF WASINTERESTED TO LEARN THAT JEFF 302 00:16:12,931 --> 00:16:16,033 HAD PHOTOGRAPHED KAT FOR HERSITE THE NIGHT SHE DIED, AND HER 303 00:16:16,067 --> 00:16:18,447 PAGE CONTAINED SUBSCRIBERREQUESTS FOR PERSONALIZED 304 00:16:18,481 --> 00:16:19,861 CONTENT. 305 00:16:19,895 --> 00:16:23,067 COULD ONE OF HER ONLYFANSSUBSCRIBERS HAVE STALKED AND 306 00:16:23,102 --> 00:16:24,413 MURDERED HER? 307 00:16:24,447 --> 00:16:28,793 >> DO WE HAVE SOMEBODY ELSEOUT THERE THAT'S ACTUALLY 308 00:16:28,826 --> 00:16:31,413 KILLING PEOPLE? 309 00:16:31,447 --> 00:16:34,000 >> Reporter: HE SAYS THEY KNEWTHEY HAD TO CAST A WIDER NET, 310 00:16:34,033 --> 00:16:35,274 SO THEY SENT JEFF HOME. 311 00:16:35,309 --> 00:16:36,758 MEHLHOFF SAYS THEY SPENT ABOUTTHREE WEEKS LOOKING FOR OTHER 312 00:16:36,793 --> 00:16:38,344 SUSPECTS. 313 00:16:38,379 --> 00:16:40,793 >> THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF NAMESTHAT HAD TO BE CULLED THROUGH IN 314 00:16:40,826 --> 00:16:44,654 ORDER TO PROPERLY INVESTIGATETHIS. 315 00:16:44,688 --> 00:16:46,344 >> Reporter: AS POLICE CONTINUEDGATHERING EVIDENCE, CAROL 316 00:16:46,379 --> 00:16:49,724 ROBINSON SAYS THEY HAD MOREPUBLIC INVOLVEMENT THAN THEY 317 00:16:49,758 --> 00:16:51,724 WANTED. 318 00:16:51,758 --> 00:16:55,344 KAT'S DEATH HAD SET THE INTERNETON FIRE. 319 00:16:55,379 --> 00:17:01,379 >> YOU HAD THIS HUGE ONLINEPRESENCE, THESE MURDER 320 00:17:01,413 --> 00:17:04,000 DISCUSSION FACEBOOK GROUPS. 321 00:17:04,034 --> 00:17:08,862 WHILE THEY MAY HAVE STARTED INCALERA, THERE WERE PEOPLE FROM 322 00:17:08,895 --> 00:17:14,448 ALL OVER, AND THEY AREN'T QUIETABOUT THEIR OPINIONS. 323 00:17:14,481 --> 00:17:19,205 >> Reporter: IT SEEMED EVERYONEHAD AN OPINION ON THE WAY KAT 324 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,792 DIED... 325 00:17:20,826 --> 00:17:24,034 >> "IT'S THE HUSBAND," "I VOTESTALKER," "IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 326 00:17:24,067 --> 00:17:25,067 A FREAK ACCIDENT." 327 00:17:25,103 --> 00:17:27,964 >> Reporter: ...AND THE WAY SHELIVED. 328 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,413 >> "I DON'T AGREE WITH HERLIFESTYLE," "SHE BROUGHT THIS ON 329 00:17:32,448 --> 00:17:36,758 HERSELF," "SHE WAS PROUD TO HAVESUCH AN AMAZING FIGURE, GOOD FOR 330 00:17:36,792 --> 00:17:39,895 HER!"SHE WAS A SYMPATHETIC VICTIM TO 331 00:17:39,931 --> 00:17:42,344 MANY. 332 00:17:42,378 --> 00:17:44,344 SHE WAS AN UNSYMPATHETICVICTIM TO MANY. 333 00:17:44,378 --> 00:17:48,586 >> Reporter: ON FACEBOOK, JEFFLATER MADE IT CLEAR THAT ALL THE 334 00:17:48,619 --> 00:17:51,862 ONLINE CHATTER HAD TAKEN A TOLLON THE FAMILY. 335 00:17:51,895 --> 00:17:55,654 "TO THE PUBLIC, OUR TRAGEDY ISJUICY GOSSIP," HE WROTE. 336 00:17:55,689 --> 00:18:01,000 >> THE FACEBOOK THING WAS REALLYINTRUDING ON THEIR LIVES, IN HIS 337 00:18:01,034 --> 00:18:03,895 OPINION. 338 00:18:03,931 --> 00:18:08,619 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS HADFORMED THEIR OWN OPINION: KAT'S 339 00:18:08,654 --> 00:18:12,689 DEATH HAD BEEN NO ACCIDENT, AND,ON FEBRUARY 22, 2018, THEY MADE 340 00:18:12,723 --> 00:18:15,826 THEIR MOVE. 341 00:18:15,862 --> 00:18:18,240 >> WILLIAM JEFFREY WEST, THEVICTIM'S HUSBAND, HAS BEEN 342 00:18:18,275 --> 00:18:20,481 ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH THEMURDER. 343 00:18:20,517 --> 00:18:24,654 >> Reporter: BAIL WAS SET AT$500,000. 344 00:18:24,689 --> 00:18:27,792 BRITTANY DRIESLER SAYS JEFFSHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, 345 00:18:27,826 --> 00:18:32,413 FIRMLY BELIEVING THAT POLICEFAILED TO FULLY INVESTIGATE 346 00:18:32,448 --> 00:18:36,586 THE HUNDREDS OF ONLYFANSSUBSCRIBERS WHO HAD PAID TO SEE 347 00:18:36,619 --> 00:18:37,586 THE RACY CONTENT KAT POSTED. 348 00:18:37,619 --> 00:18:40,931 >> DID SOMEONE ELSE KILL HER? 349 00:18:56,344 --> 00:19:00,586 ♪ ♪>> Reporter: SOME SEE IT AS 350 00:19:00,619 --> 00:19:03,205 UNSEEMLY. 351 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:04,309 OTHERS CALL IT HARMLESS FUN. 352 00:19:04,344 --> 00:19:06,240 >> STAY AT HOME! 353 00:19:06,275 --> 00:19:08,413 >> Reporter: EITHER WAY, THEONLINE VENUE WHERE KAT WEST 354 00:19:08,448 --> 00:19:11,826 POSTED HER RACY PHOTOS, KNOWN ASONLYFANS... 355 00:19:11,862 --> 00:19:13,344 >> WELCOME TO ONLYFANS. 356 00:19:13,378 --> 00:19:15,172 >> Reporter: ...IS A LOT MORETHAN ONLY A WEB SITE, SAYS CAROL 357 00:19:15,205 --> 00:19:16,689 ROBINSON. 358 00:19:16,723 --> 00:19:20,275 >> IT'S SORT OF THE HAPPY MEDIANBETWEEN PORN AND "THE BRADY 359 00:19:20,309 --> 00:19:23,000 BUNCH." 360 00:19:23,034 --> 00:19:26,205 >> WHETHER YOU'RE A BLOGGER,CELEBRITY, MODEL, WHATEVER, YOU 361 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,240 CAN REWARD YOUR LOYAL FANS WITHEVEN MORE OF THE GREAT CONTENT 362 00:19:28,275 --> 00:19:35,862 YOU ALREADY PRODUCE, BUT GETPAID FOR IT! 363 00:19:35,895 --> 00:19:39,344 >> Reporter: SINCE COVID-19CAUSED WIDESPREAD LOCKDOWNS, 364 00:19:39,378 --> 00:19:41,619 ONLYFANS HAS BECOME APROVOCATIVE AND PROFITABLE 365 00:19:41,654 --> 00:19:45,240 PLATFORM FOR CELEBRITIES. 366 00:19:45,275 --> 00:19:49,931 LAST SUMMER, FORMER DISNEY STARBELLA THORNE REPORTEDLY MADE 367 00:19:49,964 --> 00:19:54,172 $1 MILLION IN ONE DAY POSTINGLIFESTYLE CONTENT. 368 00:19:54,205 --> 00:19:56,103 >> THERE'S A LOT OF MYSELF INTHIS VIDEO. 369 00:19:56,136 --> 00:20:01,517 YEAH, SO... 370 00:20:01,550 --> 00:20:04,067 >> Reporter: AND THE SITE HASBECOME AN EXOTIC DESTINATION 371 00:20:04,103 --> 00:20:08,172 FOR MORE SALACIOUS"STAYCATIONERS," AS WELL, A 372 00:20:08,205 --> 00:20:12,517 PLACE TO DREAM OF LIVING LARGEAND POTENTIALLY TO MAKE A GOOD 373 00:20:12,550 --> 00:20:15,205 LIVING IN THE PROCESS. 374 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,964 >> I'M REALLY EXCITED TOINTRODUCE YOU TO COURTNEY 375 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,448 TILLIA. 376 00:20:20,481 --> 00:20:23,034 >> Reporter: THE FORMER TEACHERIN THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO TOLD A 377 00:20:23,067 --> 00:20:26,034 REPORTER SHE QUADRUPLED HERINCOME POSTING NUDES ON 378 00:20:26,067 --> 00:20:27,619 ONLYFANS. 379 00:20:27,654 --> 00:20:32,034 >> I WEAR THINGS THAT ALLOW METO FEEL SEXY BECAUSE WHEN I FEEL 380 00:20:32,067 --> 00:20:34,172 SEXY, I FEEL POWERFUL. 381 00:20:34,205 --> 00:20:36,034 >> Reporter: THIS WOMAN SAYS SHEIS PAYING HER WAY THROUGH A 382 00:20:36,067 --> 00:20:39,103 NEUROSCIENCE MASTER'S PROGRAM. 383 00:20:39,136 --> 00:20:40,619 >> AMEN! 384 00:20:40,654 --> 00:20:43,964 >> Reporter: AND THIS PASTORMADE HEADLINES WHEN SHE LEFT THE 385 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,931 PULPIT NOT FOR A HIGHER CALLING,BUT SHE DID EVENTUALLY MAKE A 386 00:20:47,964 --> 00:20:51,895 HIGHER PAYCHECK... 387 00:20:51,931 --> 00:20:54,586 >> CAN I GET A HALLELUJAH AND ANAMEN? 388 00:20:54,619 --> 00:20:56,344 >> Reporter: ...POSTING ONONLYFANS AND NOW REPORTEDLY 389 00:20:56,378 --> 00:20:59,964 EARNING TENS OF THOUSANDSOF DOLLARS A MONTH. 390 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,723 BY THE END OF 2020, THE LONDON-BASED SITE HAD GROWN TO MORE 391 00:21:02,758 --> 00:21:11,240 THAN A MILLION CONTENT PROVIDERSAND 90 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. 392 00:21:11,275 --> 00:21:15,034 DOES IT SURPRISE YOU AT ALL TOHEAR THAT AS SOON AS THE 393 00:21:15,067 --> 00:21:19,517 PANDEMIC HIT, ONLYFANS, THEPOPULARITY AND THE USAGE OF IT, 394 00:21:19,550 --> 00:21:20,034 JUMPED BY 75%? 395 00:21:20,067 --> 00:21:23,654 >> NOT AT ALL. 396 00:21:23,689 --> 00:21:27,034 >> Reporter: IN 2015, LAURENKWEI MOVED TO NEW YORK FROM HER 397 00:21:27,067 --> 00:21:29,758 HOME IN WEST VIRGINIA WITHDREAMS OF MAKING IT BIG ON 398 00:21:29,792 --> 00:21:31,000 BROADWAY. 399 00:21:31,034 --> 00:21:35,413 >> I REALLY WANTED TO MAKESOMETHING OF MYSELF. 400 00:21:35,448 --> 00:21:38,723 >> Reporter: SOON FRUSTRATEDWITH THE RAT RACE, THE 23-YEAR- 401 00:21:38,758 --> 00:21:42,792 OLD DAUGHTER OF A DOCTOR ANDNURSE BEGAN STUDYING EMERGENCY 402 00:21:42,826 --> 00:21:44,964 MEDICINE AND BECAME A PARAMEDICAROUND THE TIME THE PANDEMIC 403 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,586 BEGAN. 404 00:21:46,619 --> 00:21:50,103 >> I KNEW THERE WAS A JOB THATNEEDED TO BE DONE. 405 00:21:50,136 --> 00:21:54,723 >> Reporter: ALMOST IMMEDIATELY,SHE FOUND HERSELF TREATING AND 406 00:21:54,758 --> 00:21:59,067 TRANSPORTING CRITICALLY ILLCOVID PATIENTS, WORKING AT THE 407 00:21:59,103 --> 00:22:00,413 INTERSECTION OF LIFE AND DEATH. 408 00:22:00,448 --> 00:22:03,240 >> I STILL REMEMBER TAKINGPATIENTS AWAY WHOSE FAMILY 409 00:22:03,275 --> 00:22:04,862 MEMBERS COULDN'T COME WITH US. 410 00:22:04,895 --> 00:22:08,931 THEY DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS GOINGTO BE THE LAST TIME THEY SAW 411 00:22:08,964 --> 00:22:11,792 EACH OTHER. 412 00:22:11,826 --> 00:22:14,792 THAT WAS REALLY ROUGH FOR ME. 413 00:22:14,826 --> 00:22:18,344 >> Reporter: ROUGHER STILL, SHESAYS, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH SHE 414 00:22:18,378 --> 00:22:20,895 WAS SAVING LIVES, IT WASIMPOSSIBLE TO SAVE ANY MONEY. 415 00:22:20,931 --> 00:22:28,931 SHE WAS MAKING ONLY ABOUT$40,000 A YEAR, LESS THAN OTHER 416 00:22:28,964 --> 00:22:32,448 FIRST RESPONDERS, LIKE MANY NEWYORK POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS. 417 00:22:32,481 --> 00:22:35,586 IS WHAT YOU WERE GETTING PAIDENOUGH TO COVER YOUR MONTHLY 418 00:22:35,619 --> 00:22:36,136 NUT? 419 00:22:36,172 --> 00:22:38,067 >> NO, NOT AT ALL. 420 00:22:38,103 --> 00:22:39,723 IT WASN'T FEASIBLE TO LIVE OFFOF THAT SALARY. 421 00:22:39,758 --> 00:22:43,689 >> Reporter: AS HER BILLS PILEDUP AND EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS 422 00:22:43,723 --> 00:22:44,895 DWINDLED, LAUREN TURNED TOONLYFANS. 423 00:22:44,931 --> 00:22:47,689 >> I DON'T HAVE TO GO OUTSIDEOF MY HOUSE, YOU KNOW. 424 00:22:47,723 --> 00:22:48,931 THIS COULD BE AN EASY BUSINESS. 425 00:22:48,964 --> 00:22:51,172 >> Reporter: USING AN ALIAS, SHESTARTED BY POSTING LINGERIE 426 00:22:51,205 --> 00:22:55,619 PICS, CROPPING OUT HER FACE. 427 00:22:55,654 --> 00:22:59,654 BUT SHE SAYS SHE SOON STOPPEDCROPPING, AND, BEFORE LONG, THE 428 00:22:59,689 --> 00:23:02,309 PARAMEDIC WHO BY DAY WASCOVERING EVERY INCH OF HER BODY 429 00:23:02,344 --> 00:23:08,826 IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING STARTEDTAKING IT ALL OFF ONLINE. 430 00:23:08,862 --> 00:23:11,275 DID YOU POST FULL NUDE SHOTS? 431 00:23:11,309 --> 00:23:12,723 >> YES, I DID. 432 00:23:12,758 --> 00:23:15,067 >> Reporter: AND SHE SAYS IF KATWEST WAS PROUD TO BE ON 433 00:23:15,103 --> 00:23:19,034 ONLYFANS, SHE WOULD HAVE HADREASON TO BE. 434 00:23:19,067 --> 00:23:20,758 >> THE HUMAN BODY, I BELIEVEIT SHOULD BE CELEBRATED. 435 00:23:20,792 --> 00:23:23,586 >> Reporter: AND HOW DID IT MAKEYOU FEEL WHEN YOU WERE POSTING? 436 00:23:23,619 --> 00:23:26,034 >> I FELT EMPOWERED. 437 00:23:26,067 --> 00:23:27,550 I DID NOT FEEL LIKE I WASDEGRADING MYSELF. 438 00:23:27,586 --> 00:23:31,240 >> Reporter: AND JUST TO BECLEAR, THIS WAS MONEY YOU WERE 439 00:23:31,275 --> 00:23:32,481 USING TO PUT FOOD ON YOUR TABLE? 440 00:23:32,517 --> 00:23:35,550 >> 100%. 441 00:23:35,586 --> 00:23:38,448 >> Reporter: BUT LAUREN ADMITSSHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE 442 00:23:38,481 --> 00:23:40,000 EXPOSURE. 443 00:23:40,034 --> 00:23:43,205 >> IT WAS SCARY TO THINK THAT,YOU KNOW, I'D BE TAKING PICTURES 444 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,586 OF MYSELF THAT WOULD BE ON THEINTERNET. 445 00:23:46,619 --> 00:23:50,275 >> Reporter: ESPECIALLY AS HERPOOL OF ONLYFANS SUBSCRIBERS 446 00:23:50,309 --> 00:23:51,792 STARTED TO GROW. 447 00:23:51,826 --> 00:23:55,517 SHE SAYS SOME OF THE REQUESTSFOR PERSONALIZED CONTENT WERE 448 00:23:55,550 --> 00:23:56,619 DISRESPECTFUL. 449 00:23:56,654 --> 00:24:08,619 >> THERE'S SOME REALLY WEIRDPEOPLE ON THE INTERNET. 450 00:24:08,654 --> 00:24:10,895 >> Reporter: DID YOU EVERCONSIDER THAT MAYBE SOMEONE FROM 451 00:24:10,931 --> 00:24:13,481 HER ONLINE LIFE COULD HAVEPLAYED A ROLE IN WHAT HAPPENED 452 00:24:13,517 --> 00:24:14,964 TO HER THAT NIGHT? 453 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,517 >> WE LOOKED INTO THAT, ANDTHERE JUST WASN'T THAT EVIDENCE 454 00:24:18,550 --> 00:24:19,931 OUT THERE. 455 00:24:19,964 --> 00:24:23,448 >> Reporter: NO EVIDENCE THAT ANONLYFANS ONLINE USER WAS 456 00:24:23,481 --> 00:24:25,517 INVOLVED IN KAT WEST'S DEATH. 457 00:24:25,550 --> 00:24:29,000 WHAT THE EVIDENCE DOES SHOW,SAYS JEFF'S ATTORNEY, JOHN 458 00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:31,448 ROBBINS, IS THAT KAT WASN'TMURDERED. 459 00:24:31,481 --> 00:24:35,275 >> SHE FELL AND HIT HER HEAD. 460 00:24:35,309 --> 00:24:38,309 >> Reporter: JEFF'S PARENTS,JERRY AND SUZI, AGREE. 461 00:24:38,344 --> 00:24:41,895 THEY AREN'T SURE EXACTLY HOW KATHIT HER HEAD, AND THEY DON'T 462 00:24:41,931 --> 00:24:44,275 THINK AUTHORITIES CAN PROVE IT,EITHER. 463 00:24:44,309 --> 00:24:46,931 >> THEY SET OUT TO GET JEFF. 464 00:24:46,964 --> 00:24:47,619 THERE WAS NO INVESTIGATION. 465 00:24:47,654 --> 00:24:50,034 >> I KNOW HE'S INNOCENT. 466 00:24:50,067 --> 00:24:54,895 >> I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYBODYSAYS, HE DID NOT DO THIS. 467 00:24:54,931 --> 00:24:56,240 >> Reporter: JEFF'S PARENTS SAYHE WAS INCAPABLE OF HARMING HIS 468 00:24:56,275 --> 00:24:59,413 FAMILY. 469 00:24:59,448 --> 00:25:02,517 NOW, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOUWOULD EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THE 470 00:25:02,550 --> 00:25:06,586 PARENTS OF AN ACCUSED KILLER,BUT YOU WOULD PROBABLY NOT 471 00:25:06,619 --> 00:25:08,481 EXPECT TO HEAR THE SAME THINGFROM THE PARENTS OF THE ALLEGED 472 00:25:08,517 --> 00:25:09,654 VICTIM. 473 00:25:09,689 --> 00:25:13,586 >> HE'S HONORABLE, AND HE LOVEDMY DAUGHTER. 474 00:25:13,619 --> 00:25:14,481 I KNOW HE DIDN'T DO IT. 475 00:25:14,517 --> 00:25:17,275 >> HE DIDN'T DO THIS. 476 00:25:17,309 --> 00:25:19,826 >> Reporter: KAT'S PARENTS, JOHNAND NANCY, SAY THEIR DAUGHTER 477 00:25:19,862 --> 00:25:26,413 WAS CONSPICUOUSLY CLUMSY, ANDTHE DRINKING DID NOT HELP. 478 00:25:26,448 --> 00:25:30,378 BRITTANY DRIESLER CONCEDESANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. 479 00:25:30,413 --> 00:25:32,862 >> SHE COULD HAVE RAN OUTSIDEIN THE STREET, RIGHT? 480 00:25:32,895 --> 00:25:35,275 BECAUSE SHE WAS SO INTOXICATED. 481 00:25:35,309 --> 00:25:42,826 >> Reporter: AUTHORITIES INSISTJEFF WEST IS A MURDERER, BUT 482 00:25:42,862 --> 00:25:44,136 THEIR TACTICS SUGGEST OTHERWISE. 483 00:25:44,172 --> 00:25:47,136 JOHN ROBBINS SAYS JUST A FEWMONTHS BEFORE TRIAL, THE 484 00:25:47,172 --> 00:25:50,309 PROSECUTION OFFERED JEFF WEST ADEAL. 485 00:25:50,344 --> 00:25:54,240 IT'S CALLED AN "ALFORD PLEA." 486 00:25:54,275 --> 00:25:55,895 JEFF WOULD NOT HAVE TO ADMITTHAT HE HAD COMMITTED A CRIME, 487 00:25:55,931 --> 00:26:01,309 BUT HE WOULD HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGETHAT THE STATE HAD ENOUGH 488 00:26:01,344 --> 00:26:02,862 EVIDENCE TO LIKELY CONVICT. 489 00:26:02,895 --> 00:26:07,034 NOW, IF THE JUDGE ACCEPTED THATDEAL, IT MEANS THAT JEFF WOULD 490 00:26:07,067 --> 00:26:10,067 BE LET OFF WITH TIME SERVEDAND ONLY TWO YEARS' PROBATION. 491 00:26:10,103 --> 00:26:13,550 HE COULD WALK OUT OF JAIL ALMOSTIMMEDIATELY. 492 00:26:13,586 --> 00:26:19,136 WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU, AS ADEFENSE ATTORNEY, WHEN THE 493 00:26:19,172 --> 00:26:20,758 PROSECUTION IS OFFERING A DEAL? 494 00:26:20,792 --> 00:26:23,723 >> THAT TELLS YOU, AS A DEFENSELAWYER, THE PROSECUTION HAS SOME 495 00:26:23,758 --> 00:26:28,931 PROBLEMS WITH THEIR CASE, ANDTHEY RECOGNIZE THAT. 496 00:26:28,964 --> 00:26:34,862 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO SHELBYCOUNTY PROSECUTORS, PLEA DEALS 497 00:26:34,895 --> 00:26:38,034 ARE STANDARD IN EVERY CASE, ANDROBBINS SAYS HE TOLD JEFF IT WAS 498 00:26:38,067 --> 00:26:40,067 A REASONABLE OFFER. 499 00:26:40,103 --> 00:26:41,758 >> HE REJECTED IT IMMEDIATELY. 500 00:26:41,792 --> 00:26:43,723 >> Reporter: WHY DID HE REJECTTHE OFFER? 501 00:26:43,758 --> 00:26:47,723 >> BECAUSE HE SAYS, "I CANNOTSAY THAT I'M GUILTY OF SOMETHING 502 00:26:47,758 --> 00:26:49,205 THAT I DIDN'T DO." 503 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:54,654 >> Reporter: JEFF WEST DECIDESTO ROLL THE DICE AND TAKE HIS 504 00:26:54,689 --> 00:26:55,862 CHANCES IN COURT. 505 00:26:55,895 --> 00:26:59,895 >> HE UNDERSTANDS THE RISK OFGOING TO TRIAL. 506 00:27:27,034 --> 00:27:30,550 >> Reporter: FOR MORE THAN TWOYEARS, JEFF WEST HAS AWAITED 507 00:27:30,586 --> 00:27:33,103 TRIAL IN CUSTODY. 508 00:27:33,136 --> 00:27:36,103 >> WE WEREN'T GETTING A LOTOF INFORMATION AT THE TIME. 509 00:27:36,136 --> 00:27:40,067 THE POLICE WERE HOLDING THINGSCLOSE TO THEIR VEST. 510 00:27:40,103 --> 00:27:42,103 >> Reporter: DEFENSE ATTORNEYJOHN ROBBINS BELIEVES 511 00:27:42,136 --> 00:27:45,826 PROSECUTORS HAVE PROBLEMS WITHTHEIR CASE. 512 00:27:45,862 --> 00:27:47,826 HE SAYS, THE FRIDAY BEFORETRIAL, THEY CALLED HIM WITH 513 00:27:47,862 --> 00:27:50,931 MORE TALK OF A PLEA DEAL. 514 00:27:50,964 --> 00:27:55,862 >> WE DISCUSSED WHAT WOULDIT TAKE TO SETTLE THE CASE. 515 00:27:55,895 --> 00:27:58,654 >> Reporter: BUT THEY COULD NOTCOME TO TERMS. 516 00:27:58,689 --> 00:28:01,034 THE PROSECUTION HAS ALSONOTIFIED THE COURT IT WILL MAKE 517 00:28:01,067 --> 00:28:06,964 A NEW FILING OF EVIDENCE: TEXTMESSAGES BETWEEN JEFF AND KAT. 518 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,862 >> IT WAS VERY APPARENT THAT ITWAS A VERY VOLATILE 519 00:28:10,895 --> 00:28:13,654 RELATIONSHIP. 520 00:28:13,689 --> 00:28:17,619 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS WILLTELL THE JURY THAT THE WESTS DID 521 00:28:17,654 --> 00:28:19,136 NOT HAVE A HARMONIOUS MARRIAGE. 522 00:28:19,172 --> 00:28:22,964 "YOU'RE THROWING ALMOST 14 YEARSOF A RELATIONSHIP AWAY," SHE'D 523 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,826 WRITTEN A WEEK BEFORE SHE DIED. 524 00:28:25,862 --> 00:28:26,826 "YOU DON'T WANT ME, FINE. 525 00:28:26,862 --> 00:28:28,792 SOMEONE WILL." 526 00:28:28,826 --> 00:28:30,826 "I ALWAYS WANT YOU," HE'DREPLIED. 527 00:28:30,862 --> 00:28:37,758 THE TEXTS WENT FROM ERRATIC TOEROTIC SO FAST THAT ROBBINS 528 00:28:37,792 --> 00:28:39,517 ACTUALLY WANTS TO USE THEM TODEFEND JEFF. 529 00:28:39,550 --> 00:28:43,275 >> ANY TIME KAT SAID SOMETHINGTHAT "CAN BE CONSIDERED AN 530 00:28:43,309 --> 00:28:46,689 ARGUMENT," HIS RESPONSE IS, "ILOVE YOU, I WANT YOU, YOU'RE 531 00:28:46,723 --> 00:28:52,826 SEXY." 532 00:28:52,862 --> 00:28:58,826 >> TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THEMURDER TRIAL AGAINST JEFF WEST 533 00:28:58,862 --> 00:29:00,344 IN THE MURDER OF KAT WEST. 534 00:29:00,378 --> 00:29:02,654 >> Reporter: THE JUDGE BANNEDNEWS CAMERAS FROM THE COURTROOM, 535 00:29:02,689 --> 00:29:05,654 BUT WE WERE AT THE COURTHOUSETAKING NOTES. 536 00:29:05,689 --> 00:29:09,275 AND IT SOON BECAME CLEAR THEREWERE AT LEAST TWO THINGS THE 537 00:29:09,309 --> 00:29:11,723 DEFENSE AND PROSECUTION AGREEDON: THE CAUSE OF DEATH, BLUNT 538 00:29:11,758 --> 00:29:17,654 FORCE TRAUMA; AND HOW THE NIGHTBEGAN. 539 00:29:17,689 --> 00:29:22,517 JEFF AND KAT HAD STARTEDDRINKING AT DINNER AND BOUGHT 540 00:29:22,550 --> 00:29:24,067 MORE BOOZE ON THE WAY HOME. 541 00:29:24,103 --> 00:29:26,586 IT WAS LATER THAT KAT APPARENTLYHAD CHANGED INTO LINGERIE AND 542 00:29:26,619 --> 00:29:30,654 ASKED JEFF TO PHOTOGRAPH HER FORHER ONLINE FANS. 543 00:29:30,689 --> 00:29:34,654 ON INSTAGRAM, THAT NIGHT, HEPOSTED THIS PICTURE OF THE 544 00:29:34,689 --> 00:29:36,103 ABSINTHE LIQUOR BOTTLE. 545 00:29:36,136 --> 00:29:38,654 AUTHORITIES CONTEND HE WOULDBLUDGEON HER TO DEATH WITH THE 546 00:29:38,689 --> 00:29:42,619 VERY SAME BOTTLE. 547 00:29:42,654 --> 00:29:45,723 BUT WHY WOULD JEFF WEST WANT TOKILL HIS WIFE? 548 00:29:45,758 --> 00:29:47,550 >> I WOULDN'T WANT TO SPECULATEAS TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT DROVE HIM 549 00:29:47,586 --> 00:29:49,654 TO THAT POINT. 550 00:29:49,689 --> 00:29:52,378 BUT I CAN CERTAINLY SAY THAT IFEEL THAT, YES, HE'S-- HE'S THE 551 00:29:52,413 --> 00:30:02,586 ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS WIFE'SDEATH. 552 00:30:02,619 --> 00:30:05,481 >> Reporter: AT THE SCENE,MEHLHOFF SAYS HE FOUND IT ODD 553 00:30:05,517 --> 00:30:07,448 THAT JEFF DID NOT ASK FORDETAILS ABOUT HIS WIFE'S 554 00:30:07,481 --> 00:30:08,654 CONDITION. 555 00:30:08,689 --> 00:30:10,550 >> I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THATHE WOULD HAVE AT LEAST ASKED, 556 00:30:10,586 --> 00:30:13,309 YOU KNOW, "CAN I SEE HER?">> Reporter: CAROL BELIEVES WHAT 557 00:30:13,344 --> 00:30:14,481 JEFF DID SAY MADE AUTHORITIESSUSPICIOUS, TOO. 558 00:30:14,517 --> 00:30:18,550 >> ACCORDING TO JEFF, HE WENT TOBED ABOUT 10:30. 559 00:30:18,586 --> 00:30:19,758 KAT STAYED UP. 560 00:30:19,792 --> 00:30:22,619 >> NOW, THAT'S JEFF'S VERSION OFWHAT HAPPENED. 561 00:30:22,654 --> 00:30:26,619 >> Reporter: BUT BEFORE LONG,MEHLHOFF UNEARTHED A DIFFERENT 562 00:30:26,654 --> 00:30:29,413 STORY ON A HEALTH TRACKER APPON JEFF'S CELL PHONE. 563 00:30:29,448 --> 00:30:33,723 >> WELL, THE HEALTH APP ACTUALLYSHOWS JEFF'S PHONE MOVING AS 564 00:30:33,758 --> 00:30:35,586 LATE AS TEN MINUTES AFTER 11:00. 565 00:30:35,619 --> 00:30:40,550 >> Reporter: AND MEHLHOFF SAYSHE BELIEVES JEFF ALSO LIED ABOUT 566 00:30:40,586 --> 00:30:41,931 WHEN HE WOKE UP THAT MORNING. 567 00:30:41,964 --> 00:30:46,034 JEFF TOLD POLICE HIS DOGS GOTHIM UP BY BARKING AT THE 568 00:30:46,067 --> 00:30:49,895 CRUISERS OUT FRONT, BUT ANEIGHBOR REPORTED SEEING JEFF 569 00:30:49,931 --> 00:30:51,309 BEFORE POLICE ARRIVED. 570 00:30:51,344 --> 00:30:56,378 >> SHE COULD SEE A MAN IN THEHOUSE PACING BACK AND FORTH. 571 00:30:56,413 --> 00:30:59,000 >> Reporter: HAVING LAID OUTWHAT THEY BELIEVED WERE JEFF'S 572 00:30:59,034 --> 00:31:02,413 MOVEMENTS THAT NIGHT, POLICELOOK AT KAT'S PHONE, WHICH ALSO 573 00:31:02,448 --> 00:31:05,481 HAD A HEALTH TRACKER APP. 574 00:31:05,517 --> 00:31:10,067 IT SHOWED HER PHONE HAD STOPPEDMOVING 16 MINUTES BEFORE JEFF'S. 575 00:31:10,103 --> 00:31:14,309 BUT WHAT HAD ACTUALLY CAUSEDKAT'S FATAL WOUND? 576 00:31:14,344 --> 00:31:17,275 ABOUT A MONTH AFTER HER DEATH,POLICE GOT TEST RESULTS FROM 577 00:31:17,309 --> 00:31:18,895 THAT ABSINTHE BOTTLE. 578 00:31:18,931 --> 00:31:22,619 IT HAD A SLIVER OF GLASS CHIPPEDOFF, AND THERE WERE TWO SPOTS OF 579 00:31:22,654 --> 00:31:25,654 KAT'S BLOOD ON THE BOTTOM. 580 00:31:25,689 --> 00:31:27,205 >> WE HAD JEFF'S FINGERPRINTS ONIT. 581 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:32,067 >> Reporter: WOULDN'T YOU EXPECTTHAT, GIVEN THAT THEY BOUGHT IT 582 00:31:32,103 --> 00:31:33,964 TOGETHER AND THEY SAID THEY'DBEEN DRINKING, THAT HIS PRINTS 583 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:34,550 WOULD BE ON IT? 584 00:31:34,586 --> 00:31:36,034 >> OH, ABSOLUTELY. 585 00:31:36,067 --> 00:31:38,758 >> Reporter: BUT MEHLHOFF SAYSTHERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIFIC 586 00:31:38,792 --> 00:31:42,240 ABOUT THE PRINTS THAT HELPEDPOINT THE FINGER OF BLAME AT 587 00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:46,275 JEFF. 588 00:31:46,309 --> 00:31:49,344 >> BASICALLY, THE BOTTLE WASHELD INVERTED, MUCH LIKE HE'D BE 589 00:31:49,378 --> 00:31:50,862 HOLDING IT LIKE A CLUB. 590 00:31:50,895 --> 00:31:54,000 >> JEFF'S THUMBPRINT WAS FOUNDIN A DOWNWARD POSITION ON THE 591 00:31:54,034 --> 00:31:58,309 BOTTLE, AND HIS RING FINGERPRINTWAS FOUND OVER HERE. 592 00:31:58,344 --> 00:32:00,172 >> SHE WAS NOT HIT IN THE HEADWITH THAT BOTTLE. 593 00:32:00,205 --> 00:32:04,378 >> Reporter: ROBBINS SAYS THAT'SCLEAR BECAUSE JEFF IS A RIGHTY, 594 00:32:04,413 --> 00:32:08,240 AND THE PRINTS ON THE BOTTLEWERE FROM HIS LEFT HAND. 595 00:32:08,275 --> 00:32:10,275 AND THERE'S A GOOD REASONTHEY'RE UPSIDE DOWN. 596 00:32:10,309 --> 00:32:11,792 >> THE BOTTLE WAS IN A BAG. 597 00:32:11,826 --> 00:32:15,413 YOU WOULD PULL IT OUT OF THE BAGIN THE SAME WAY, WHERE YOUR 598 00:32:15,448 --> 00:32:18,240 THUMBPRINT WOULD BE GOING DOWN. 599 00:32:18,275 --> 00:32:22,275 >> Reporter: BUT TO WIN THISCASE, THE DEFENSE WILL TELL THE 600 00:32:22,309 --> 00:32:26,205 JURY THAT JEFF WEST COULD NOTHAVE MURDERED HIS WIFE BECAUSE 601 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,136 KAT WASN'T MURDERED. 602 00:32:28,172 --> 00:32:30,136 >> I'VE HANDLED WELL OVER AHUNDRED MURDER CASES. 603 00:32:30,172 --> 00:32:35,067 NEVER WENT FORWARD ON A MURDERCASE WHERE THE MANNER OF DEATH 604 00:32:35,103 --> 00:32:38,103 WAS CLASSIFIED AS UNDETERMINED. 605 00:32:38,136 --> 00:32:41,275 >> Reporter: WHAT HAPPENEDTHAT NIGHT TO KAT WEST? 606 00:32:41,309 --> 00:32:46,103 >> IN A NUTSHELL, SHE FELL, SHEHIT HER HEAD. 607 00:32:46,136 --> 00:32:47,862 >> Reporter: ROBBINS SAYS POLICEFOUND JEFF DRESSED IN THE SAME 608 00:32:47,895 --> 00:32:51,654 CLOTHES AS SEEN IN THE SECURITYVIDEO THE NIGHT BEFORE. 609 00:32:51,689 --> 00:32:56,136 >> THERE WAS NOTHING ON HISCLOTHES-- NO LIQUOR, NO BLOOD, 610 00:32:56,172 --> 00:32:58,136 NO BODILY FLUID, NO TISSUE, NOHAIR. 611 00:32:58,172 --> 00:33:01,034 AND THERE WAS NO HAIR ON THEBOTTLE. 612 00:33:01,067 --> 00:33:02,550 THERE'S NO GLASS IN HER WOUND. 613 00:33:02,586 --> 00:33:04,826 >> Reporter: AND, DESPITE WHATPOLICE TOLD US, NO REAL EFFORT, 614 00:33:04,862 --> 00:33:10,103 ROBBINS MAINTAINS, TO CONSIDEROTHER SUSPECTS OR THEORIES ABOUT 615 00:33:10,136 --> 00:33:11,275 KAT'S DEATH. 616 00:33:11,309 --> 00:33:14,481 >> THE ONLY PERSON THEY EVERLOOKED AT WAS JEFF, AND THEY 617 00:33:14,517 --> 00:33:18,067 REALLY NEVER LOOKED AT ITWHETHER IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. 618 00:33:18,103 --> 00:33:23,000 >> Reporter: WAS THERE EVER ATIME WHEN YOU OR ANYONE IN THE 619 00:33:23,034 --> 00:33:26,034 POLICE DEPARTMENT LOOKED INTOTHE POSSIBILITY OF IT BEING AN 620 00:33:26,067 --> 00:33:27,931 ACCIDENT? 621 00:33:27,964 --> 00:33:29,481 >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. 622 00:33:29,517 --> 00:33:34,034 I DON'T WANT TO SIT HERE AND SAYTHAT I IMMEDIATELY RULED OUT AN 623 00:33:34,067 --> 00:33:38,034 ACCIDENT, BUT JUST THE HEADTRAUMA ALONE, KNOWING THAT THE 624 00:33:38,067 --> 00:33:40,931 BODY HAD BEEN MOVED, IT WAS VERYHARD TO TRY TO LOOK AT THIS AS 625 00:33:40,964 --> 00:33:42,103 AN ACCIDENT. 626 00:33:42,136 --> 00:33:44,034 >> Reporter: NOT HARD AT ALL,INSISTS ROBBINS. 627 00:33:44,067 --> 00:33:48,862 THE TWO BLOOD POOLS AT THE SCENESUGGEST THAT AFTER KAT FELL, SHE 628 00:33:48,895 --> 00:33:52,034 COULD HAVE GOTTEN UP AND FALLENAGAIN. 629 00:33:52,067 --> 00:33:56,862 >> 'CAUSE IT'S CLEAR THAT SHEMOVED AROUND AFTER SHE HAD THAT 630 00:33:56,895 --> 00:33:58,344 HEAD INJURY. 631 00:33:58,378 --> 00:34:02,034 >> Reporter: JOHN ROBBINS HASWHITTLED HIS ENTIRE CASE DOWN 632 00:34:02,067 --> 00:34:05,275 TO ONLY ONE WITNESS, A WITNESSGUARANTEED TO GET THE JURY'S 633 00:34:05,309 --> 00:34:09,550 ATTENTION. 634 00:34:09,585 --> 00:34:12,516 KAT'S MOTHER, NANCY MARTIN,TAKES THE STAND TO TELL THE JURY 635 00:34:12,550 --> 00:34:15,619 ABOUT HER DAUGHTER'S LIFELONGSTRUGGLES. 636 00:34:15,655 --> 00:34:16,862 IT'S A LOT OF PRESSURE. 637 00:34:16,896 --> 00:34:17,931 >> YEAH, IT WAS. 638 00:34:17,965 --> 00:34:20,103 IT REALLY WAS. 639 00:34:20,137 --> 00:34:22,827 >> MARTIN TESTIFIED THAT SHE,HERSELF, HAD WITNESSED KAT WEST 640 00:34:22,862 --> 00:34:27,344 IN AN INTOXICATED STATE GOOUTSIDE BAREFOOT IN ANY-- 641 00:34:27,378 --> 00:34:28,827 WHETHER IT WAS HOT OR COLD,SHE SAID. 642 00:34:28,862 --> 00:34:32,413 SHE WOULD BE IN VARYING STAGESOF DRESS. 643 00:34:32,447 --> 00:34:37,275 >> Reporter: WERE YOU SURPRISEDAT HOW SUPPORTIVE KAT'S PARENTS, 644 00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:40,793 PARTICULARLY HER MOTHER, WAS OFTHE MAN POLICE SAY KILLED HER 645 00:34:40,827 --> 00:34:42,240 DAUGHTER? 646 00:34:42,275 --> 00:34:46,206 >> YOU KNOW, I CAN'T REALLYRECALL ANOTHER CASE WHERE THE 647 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:52,965 MOTHER OF THE VICTIM AND THEFATHER OF THE VICTIM WERE SO 648 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,447 ATTACHED TO THE SUSPECT. 649 00:34:54,481 --> 00:34:57,757 >> Reporter: KAT'S PARENTS AREEVEN GIVING JEFF LEGAL ADVICE. 650 00:34:57,793 --> 00:35:00,068 THEY HELPED CONVINCE HIM NOT TOTESTIFY. 651 00:35:00,103 --> 00:35:01,827 >> JEFF'S IN A GOOD MOOD. 652 00:35:01,862 --> 00:35:04,827 HE'S FIRED UP. 653 00:35:04,862 --> 00:35:07,931 >> Reporter: IN CLOSINGARGUMENTS, ASSISTANT DISTRICT 654 00:35:07,965 --> 00:35:09,931 ATTORNEY DANIEL McBRAYER FINALLYTIES TOGETHER THE STATE'S THEORY 655 00:35:09,965 --> 00:35:13,793 OF WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT ANDWHY. 656 00:35:13,827 --> 00:35:16,793 HE SAYS JEFF HAD LOST HIS TEMPERWITH HIS WIFE. 657 00:35:16,827 --> 00:35:21,896 >> HE HAD A PROBLEM WITH HERDRINKING AND HER SOCIAL MEDIA 658 00:35:21,931 --> 00:35:23,413 USAGE. 659 00:35:23,447 --> 00:35:25,724 >> Reporter: PROSECUTORS SAY THEEVIDENCE FROM THAT NIGHT SHOWS 660 00:35:25,757 --> 00:35:27,550 IT. 661 00:35:27,585 --> 00:35:29,724 HE HAD THROWN HER PHONE INTOTHE STREET AND CLUBBED HER TO 662 00:35:29,757 --> 00:35:33,206 DEATH WITH THE LIQUOR BOTTLEWHEN SHE WENT AFTER IT. 663 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:37,000 AND McBRAYER SAYS THE WAYTHE BOTTLE AND PHONE WERE 664 00:35:37,034 --> 00:35:40,000 POSITIONED CONVINCED AUTHORITIESIT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN AN 665 00:35:40,034 --> 00:35:41,447 ACCIDENT. 666 00:35:41,481 --> 00:35:43,931 >> THERE WERE THOSE TWO ITEMSSTACKED PERFECTLY TOGETHER, 667 00:35:43,965 --> 00:35:46,619 RIGHT THERE ON THE STREET NEXTTO HER BODY. 668 00:35:46,655 --> 00:35:49,344 >> JEFF LOVED HIS WIFE. 669 00:35:49,378 --> 00:35:51,378 >> Reporter: DID YOU EVERCONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT 670 00:35:51,413 --> 00:35:52,585 THIS GUY JUST SNAPPED ONE NIGHT? 671 00:35:52,619 --> 00:35:54,619 >> BUT THERE'S NO EVIDENCE TOTHAT. 672 00:35:54,655 --> 00:35:57,862 HE HAS-- DOES NOT HAVE A HISTORYOF VIOLENCE. 673 00:35:57,896 --> 00:36:01,655 >> Reporter: THE TRIAL IS ENDINGWHEN PROSECUTORS MAKE A LAST- 674 00:36:01,688 --> 00:36:04,827 MINUTE MOVE. 675 00:36:04,862 --> 00:36:07,619 THEY CONVINCE THE JUDGE TO LETTHE JURY CONSIDER A LESSER 676 00:36:07,655 --> 00:36:09,757 CHARGE THAN MURDER: RECKLESSMANSLAUGHTER. 677 00:36:09,793 --> 00:36:13,655 >> I THINK THAT WE COULD SEE AVERDICT TONIGHT. 678 00:36:13,688 --> 00:36:16,655 >> THIS IS THE HARD PART,JUST-- JUST WAITING. 679 00:36:31,413 --> 00:36:35,344 >> THEY WERE AFRAID THAT THEYWERE GOING TO LOSE THE CASE. 680 00:36:35,378 --> 00:36:38,619 >> Reporter: JOHN ROBBINS SAYSHE WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT THE LAST- 681 00:36:38,655 --> 00:36:44,550 MINUTE LESSER CHARGE THATPROSECUTORS INTRODUCED, AND IT'S 682 00:36:44,585 --> 00:36:46,068 EASY TO SEE WHY. 683 00:36:46,103 --> 00:36:50,550 IT TAKES THE JURY LESS THAN FIVEHOURS TO CONVICT JEFF WEST OF 684 00:36:50,585 --> 00:36:53,550 RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER. 685 00:36:53,585 --> 00:36:55,619 >> JEFF IS-- IS STUNNED. 686 00:36:55,655 --> 00:36:57,240 >> Reporter: BOTH SETS OFPARENTS ARE ALSO STUNNED BY THE 687 00:36:57,275 --> 00:36:58,550 VERDICT. 688 00:36:58,585 --> 00:37:00,862 >> THAT WAS [ BLEEP], AND YOUKNOW IT. 689 00:37:00,896 --> 00:37:01,655 >> I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. 690 00:37:01,688 --> 00:37:05,206 I REALLY COULDN'T. 691 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:07,931 >> Reporter: ALMOST THREE MONTHSLATER... 692 00:37:07,965 --> 00:37:09,585 >> JUDGE BILL BOSTICK SENTENCEDJEFF WEST TO 16 YEARS. 693 00:37:09,619 --> 00:37:13,585 >> Reporter: HOW DID YOU REACTWHEN YOU HEARD 16 YEARS? 694 00:37:13,619 --> 00:37:17,585 >> I JUST WANTED TO CRY. 695 00:37:17,619 --> 00:37:21,550 >> Reporter: WITH CREDIT FORTIME SERVED, JEFF WILL BE BEHIND 696 00:37:21,585 --> 00:37:23,240 BARS FOR 13 MORE YEARS. 697 00:37:23,275 --> 00:37:26,481 FOR THE PROSECUTORS, IT'S A KINDOF SPLIT DECISION... 698 00:37:26,516 --> 00:37:29,619 >> OBVIOUSLY, WE WOULD HAVEPREFERRED A MURDER VERDICT. 699 00:37:29,655 --> 00:37:31,619 >> Reporter: ...BUT THEY DECLAREVICTORY ANYWAY. 700 00:37:31,655 --> 00:37:34,447 >> WE'RE GLAD TO GET A SENTENCE,AS WE DID. 701 00:37:34,481 --> 00:37:38,447 >> Reporter: FOR THE DEFENSE, ITIS A STINGING DEFEAT. 702 00:37:38,481 --> 00:37:41,862 JEFF KNOWS IF HE HAD ACCEPTEDTHAT PLEA DEAL FROM THE 703 00:37:41,896 --> 00:37:44,793 PROSECUTORS, HE'D PROBABLYALREADY BE HOME. 704 00:37:44,827 --> 00:37:49,585 >> IN RETROSPECT, THAT PROBABLYHE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE DEAL. 705 00:37:49,619 --> 00:37:52,757 >> Reporter: BOTH SETS OFPARENTS STAND BEHIND HIS 706 00:37:52,793 --> 00:37:54,034 DECISION. 707 00:37:54,068 --> 00:37:56,481 BY A SHOW OF HANDS, WHO THINKSJEFF IS NOT GUILTY? 708 00:37:56,516 --> 00:37:57,550 >> WE ALL THINK HE'S NOT GUILTY. 709 00:37:57,585 --> 00:38:01,034 >> WE ALL THINK HE'S NOT GUILTY. 710 00:38:01,068 --> 00:38:02,447 >> Reporter: THEY SAT DOWN WITHUS AS A GROUP THREE DAYS AFTER 711 00:38:02,481 --> 00:38:03,688 SENTENCING. 712 00:38:03,724 --> 00:38:07,516 WHO THINKS THAT HE GOT A FAIRTRIAL? 713 00:38:07,550 --> 00:38:13,034 [ CHUCKLES]>> NOBODY. 714 00:38:13,068 --> 00:38:14,619 >> Reporter: NO HANDS. 715 00:38:14,655 --> 00:38:17,413 THEY BELIEVE THE JUDGE THREW THEBOOK AT JEFF WEST IN SENTENCING 716 00:38:17,447 --> 00:38:20,413 FOR REFUSING TO SETTLE THE CASE,AND THAT FROM THE MOMENT KAT'S 717 00:38:20,447 --> 00:38:21,000 DEATH MADE NEWS... 718 00:38:21,034 --> 00:38:22,000 >> A DOUBLE LIFE. 719 00:38:22,034 --> 00:38:26,206 >> ADULT-THEMED SUBSCRIPTION-BASED BUSINESS. 720 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:29,481 >> Reporter: ...SHE WAS HARSHLYJUDGED IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC 721 00:38:29,516 --> 00:38:32,206 OPINION. 722 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:35,757 >> IT WAS THE FACT THAT SHE WASDOING THESE THINGS THAT SMALL 723 00:38:35,793 --> 00:38:37,378 TOWNS DON'T UNDERSTAND. 724 00:38:37,413 --> 00:38:41,172 [ SIREN WAILING]>> I THINK SOCIETY IS ALWAYS 725 00:38:41,206 --> 00:38:44,275 GOING TO BE HARD ON WOMEN FORANYTHING THAT WE DO. 726 00:38:44,309 --> 00:38:48,275 >> Reporter: NEW YORK CITYPARAMEDIC LAUREN KWEI SAYS, FOR 727 00:38:48,309 --> 00:38:52,688 HER, THE HARSH JUDGEMENTS DIDNOT START UNTIL LAST NOVEMBER, 728 00:38:52,724 --> 00:38:54,137 WHEN A NEWSPAPER REPORTERCONTACTED HER OUT OF THE BLUE. 729 00:38:54,172 --> 00:39:00,378 >> HE SAID, "SOMEBODY TIPPEDTHE 'NEW YORK POST' THAT YOU'RE 730 00:39:00,413 --> 00:39:01,862 A PARAMEDIC WITH AN ONLYFANS." 731 00:39:01,896 --> 00:39:05,309 >> Reporter: HE TOLD HER HE WASINVESTIGATING WHETHER HER 732 00:39:05,344 --> 00:39:08,275 ONLYFANS PAGE VIOLATED HEREMPLOYER'S CODE OF CONDUCT. 733 00:39:08,309 --> 00:39:13,309 >> AND IN THAT MOMENT, I-- IWANTED TO JUST, LIKE, CRAWL IN A 734 00:39:13,344 --> 00:39:17,275 HOLE AND DIE. 735 00:39:17,309 --> 00:39:20,240 >> Reporter: LAUREN SAYS SHECANCELED HER ONLYFANS ACCOUNT 736 00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:21,757 IMMEDIATELY. 737 00:39:21,793 --> 00:39:25,240 THE EXPOSEÉ, INCLUDING HER REALNAME AND WHERE SHE LIVED AND 738 00:39:25,275 --> 00:39:29,240 WORKED, BEGAN CIRCULATING A FEWWEEKS LATER. 739 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:32,137 >> I OPENED MY INSTAGRAM ANDSAW, YOU KNOW, 600 FOLLOW 740 00:39:32,172 --> 00:39:33,309 REQUESTS. 741 00:39:33,344 --> 00:39:35,413 >> Reporter: WERE YOU AFRAID FORYOUR SAFETY? 742 00:39:35,447 --> 00:39:36,931 >> ABSOLUTELY. 743 00:39:36,965 --> 00:39:41,000 >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU THINKWOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HAD 744 00:39:41,034 --> 00:39:43,240 KEPT YOUR ONLYFANS WEB SITEGOING AFTER THE ARTICLE DROPPED? 745 00:39:43,275 --> 00:39:44,378 >> WELL, I-- I THINK ITDEFINITELY WOULD HAVE MADE A LOT 746 00:39:44,413 --> 00:39:46,862 OF MONEY. 747 00:39:46,896 --> 00:39:49,550 >> Reporter: AS IT HAPPENS, SHEDID ANYWAY. 748 00:39:49,585 --> 00:39:53,172 WORRIED THAT LAUREN MIGHT LOSEHER JOB, A FRIEND SET UP A 749 00:39:53,206 --> 00:39:54,896 GOFUNDME PAGE FOR HER. 750 00:39:54,931 --> 00:40:00,068 SUPPORTERS CONTRIBUTED MORE THAN$100,000. 751 00:40:00,103 --> 00:40:02,068 BUT THE PRIVATE AMBULANCECOMPANY SHE WORKS FOR... 752 00:40:02,103 --> 00:40:07,172 [ SIREN WAILING]...KEPT HER ON THE CLOCK. 753 00:40:07,206 --> 00:40:13,068 >> IT'S ALWAYS REALLY HARD TOWATCH PEOPLE PASS AWAY. 754 00:40:13,103 --> 00:40:17,068 SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT KATWEST, AND I THINK ABOUT WHERE 755 00:40:17,103 --> 00:40:20,034 SHE WOULD BE TODAY. 756 00:40:20,068 --> 00:40:23,931 >> [ CRYING]IT SUCKS THAT SHE WAS TAKEN SO 757 00:40:23,965 --> 00:40:25,275 EARLY. 758 00:40:25,309 --> 00:40:27,034 >> Reporter: KAT'S FRIEND,BRITTANY DRIESLER, IS LIVING 759 00:40:27,068 --> 00:40:28,034 WITH LOSS, TOO. 760 00:40:28,068 --> 00:40:29,275 >> [ CRYING]SHE'S GONE. 761 00:40:29,309 --> 00:40:32,034 THAT-- THAT-- THAT'S HEART-WRENCHING. 762 00:40:32,068 --> 00:40:37,034 THEY HAVE A DAUGHTER THAT'S INTHE MIX OF EVERYTHING. 763 00:40:37,068 --> 00:40:41,000 >> Reporter: I THINK PEOPLEFORGET THAT A CHILD IS INVOLVED. 764 00:40:41,034 --> 00:40:44,000 >> RIGHT. 765 00:40:44,034 --> 00:40:48,137 >> Reporter: EVERY WEEK, LOLA,NOW 16 YEARS OLD, GOES WITH ALL 766 00:40:48,172 --> 00:40:49,550 HER GRANDPARENTS TO SEE JEFF. 767 00:40:49,585 --> 00:40:52,965 ARE THE FOUR OF YOU STICKINGTOGETHER JUST FOR THE SAKE OF 768 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,378 LOLA? 769 00:40:54,413 --> 00:40:55,275 >> NO. 770 00:40:55,309 --> 00:40:56,965 [ LAUGHS]>> NO. 771 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,862 >> THEY'RE FAMILY! 772 00:41:00,896 --> 00:41:07,862 >> Reporter: BUT EVEN WHEN JEFFWEST DOES GET OUT OF PRISON, 773 00:41:07,896 --> 00:41:12,965 THIS WILL ALWAYS BE A FAMILYWITH SOMEONE MISSING. 774 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,000 IN AN HONEST LIGHT, HOW WOULDYOU LIKE HER TO BE REMEMBERED? 775 00:41:16,034 --> 00:41:17,447 >> KIND, CARING MOTHER. 776 00:41:17,481 --> 00:41:19,896 >> KIND, CARING PERSON WHO LOVEDHER HUSBAND AND LOVED HER 777 00:41:19,931 --> 00:41:24,447 DAUGHTER VERY MUCH. 778 00:41:28,103 --> 00:41:30,068 Captioning sponsored by CBS Captioned by 779 00:41:31,068 --> 00:41:33,068 Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 780 00:41:34,724 --> 00:41:36,862 ♪ BE A LITTLE BIT BRAVEDON'T EVER BE AFRAID TO... ♪ 781 00:41:36,896 --> 00:41:38,585 >> Reporter: JUST GOT A COUPLEQUESTIONS. 782 00:41:38,619 --> 00:41:41,550 ♪ ...SAY WHAT YOU GOTTA SAY >> O'Donnell: DO YOU THINK IT'S 783 00:41:41,585 --> 00:41:43,309 TIME FOR SCHOOLS TO REOPEN? 784 00:41:43,344 --> 00:41:46,793 >> [ WOMAN CHANTING IN SPANISH]>> King: WE ARE STILL TALKING 785 00:41:46,827 --> 00:41:48,137 ABOUT THIS STORY, AND RIGHTFULLYSO. 786 00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:51,516 ♪ SAY WHAT YOU GOTTA SAY