suspect. despite the hair analysis, susan s family was convinced that john paul phillips was susan s killer. and they didn t take phillips into custody at the time. they didn t arrest him or charge pim. which i didn t understand at the time. because i thought that they had enough reason to. later, phillips committed several assaults that landed him in jail. he went out to the devil s kitchen, spotted a young lady and her boyfriend at one of the campgrounds. he went over to carterville and kidnapped a girl, too. but police finally got a break in susan schumake s case. first, they found susan s yellow backpack in the piles fork creek behind the dormitories. her wallet was missing. friends said she usually carried about $10.