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Lois Castle, 58, committed suicide at home with a revolver yesterday. Two
police officers heard a single gunshot as they were about to knock on her front
door. They were at her house to arrest her for the 1970 murder of her young
stepdaughter. Castle apparently realized that she was going to be arrested. Only
a month earlier she had been interviewed by detectives about Dorothy’s death 35
years ago.
In 1970, Castle told police that the girl had fallen out of a tree she was
climbing and hit her head on a rock. But Dorothy’s natural father, Dwayne, who
was married to Castle at the time, thought his wife was lying. “She said she
would hurt me if I bother her again,” Dorothy had told her father earlier.
“Your little girl is making up stories about me. I try to love her, but she
rejects me,” Castle told Dwayne.
An autopsy was inconclusive, and the death was ruled accidental. Dwayne
divorced Castle shortly thereafter.
But the case was reopened recently when a playmate of Dorothy’s came
forward. Beverly Lisenby, also seven at that time, said she was about to knock
on the door of Dorothy’s house that fateful day. But instead of knocking, she
listened quietly as she heard Dorothy screaming for help and Castle telling her
to shut up. Beverly listened until it was silent inside, then ran back home. She
was so shaken by the event that she had told no one in all these years.
The coroner dug up Dorothy’s body and did a second autopsy. Using new
crime-solving tools, he determined that Dorothy had been struck in the skull
several times by a rock the size of a baseball.
The police are now trying to locate Dwayne to tell him the good news. |
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发表于 2016-7-10 09:21:17