Did Kat West s online life play a role in her mysterious death?
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Kat West s lifeless body was found outside of her Calera, Alabama, home by a neighbor who noticed her lying partially dressed in the street. Police soon learned the 42-year-old stay-at-home mom had an active social media life, including an active OnlyFans account. Authorities initially considered whether an overzealous fan caused her death. A beautiful woman, nude in a street, in a nice subdivision, says reporter Carol Robinson, a CBS News consultant. That is what doesn t happen every day around here. And that is what drove this story.
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In May 2018, 48 Hours began investigating, too.
We learned Kat had grown up in Florida, loving the outdoors and doting on her dolls. She had set her heart on someday being a mother and as she matured, tried her hand at modeling too.
Along the way, Kat s friend Brittany Driesler says she developed a strange fixation with Marilyn Monroe. She tried to recreate some of her photos, her hairdos, Brittany says. She was … trying to emulate her in every way, agrees Robinson, who learned that Kat s resemblance to the troubled movie star was more than skin deep. There were always self-esteem issues there, Robinson says.
Inside the night that led to Kat West s mysterious death
April 9, 2021 / 7:57 AM / CBS NEWS Kat West/Facebook
Authorities who investigated the death of the 42-year-old stay-at-home mom retraced not only the night of her death, but also her online life. 48 Hours goes inside the case in The Mysterious Death of Kat West airing Saturday, April 10 at 10/9c on CBS.
In the early morning hours of January 13, 2018, stay-at-home mom Kathleen Kat Dawn West, was found dead from blunt force trauma to the head. Her partially nude body was discovered across the street from her Calera, Alabama home.
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