By RANDALL CHASE
DOVER, Del. (AP) - A teenage girl was suffocated in a motel room, bound with
duct tape and chains and dumped from an airplane into the Atlantic Ocean,
police said Friday.
The details emerged as Delaware State Police released the results of the
investigation into the death of Kimberly Holton, 16.
Investigators believe Holton was lured to the Dover motel Sept. 30 and
killed by Jacob Jones, 20, and Michael Keyser, 23. Police say Jones and
another man were later seen at a home improvement store buying two cinder
blocks, five locks and 15 feet of chain.
When Holton's body was discovered Oct. 8 floating about off Cape May, N.J.,
chains were wrapped around her legs, police said. Investigators said the
body was dumped from a plane that Jones chartered.
After being interviewed last month by police, Jones killed himself. Keyser
also attempted suicide after he was arrested and charged with first-degree
murder.
Detectives believe the two men killed Holton because the girl and her foster
stepsister, whom Jones was dating, disliked each other and that the foster
stepsister did not like Holton being around. They also said Jones disliked
Holton because she teased him in front of the stepsister.
What exactly is a "foster stepsister"?
Joe takes in a foster child, Jill. Joe then moves in with or marries Jane.
Jane has a daughter, Janine. Jill and Janine are foster-stepsisters.
Most often happens when the foster arrangement is long-term; this usually
means that it was a family or friend arrangement, i.e. Joe was friends with
or related to Jill's parents, and agreed to let her live with him. For
example, sometimes people move out of an area, their kid wants to finish
high school at the same school, so they arrange for the kid to live with a
relative or friend for a year or two.
In fact, such arrangements amogn immigrants has caused an uproar in Britain,
as it is often a cover for basically treating the kid like a slave.
Bo Raxo