![]() ![]() Into a beautiful mossy log with ferns growing thickly all alongĮverybody at Silver Bush loved the birch grove, though to none of ![]() Occasionally one blewĭown in an autumn storm and was mourned by Pat until time turned it Perhaps, since there had to be fires and lumber, but homicideĪnd no tree was ever cut in the grove of white birches behind the That it was not murder to cut a tree down.justifiable homicide Nobody had ever been able to convince Pat Her when one of them, even some gnarled old spruce in the woods at There were hundreds of trees, big and little, on the Silver Bushįarm and every tree was a personal friend of Pat's. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942ĭate most recently updated: December 2002 Title: Mistress Pat: A Novel of Silver BushĪuthor: Montgomery, L. (and our other authors) or get HELP Reading, Downloading and Converting files) "And that’s what we deal with every day when we’re making stops."Ĭontact reporter Lawrence Mower at or 70.BROWSE the site for other works by this author "This officer didn’t know that he was stopping a person who might have hours before committed a homicide," Cassell said. Surveillance cameras recorded the couple using McCoy’s credit cards at an Albertsons grocery store and at a Wells Fargo bank, police said.ĭepartment spokesman Bill Cassell said the officer’s traffic stop helped the case and highlighted the dangers that officers face while making such stops. Investigators think robbery might have been the primary motive for the killing, Roberts said. McDermott is being held in Indiana and is also expected to face murder charges, Roberts said. ![]() Police found Wynne on Tuesday and booked him on charges of murder, kidnapping and robbery. Inside the bags, police found paperwork belonging to McCoy, McDermott and Wynne, an empty bottle of Clorox bleach, blood-stained clothing hair, a broken fingernail and a hacksaw. Police recovered a suitcase, duffel bags and three plastic grocery bags from the vehicle’s legal owner, who had reclaimed the Hyundai from the impound lot. ![]() "That was huge, and you don’t see that all the time." "That was a key component to solving it," Roberts said. Roberts said the diligence of the patrol officer in spotting the stolen vehicle was crucial in solving the case. With that, detectives discovered Wynne had been arrested on traffic warrants the same day McCoy’s body was discovered. In the booking process she listed her boyfriend, Wynne, as her emergency contact, according to an arrest report. They identified the person who rented the room at the Traveler’s Inn as 23-year-old Patricia McDermott, an Indiana woman who fled a court-ordered drug treatment program, removed her electronic monitoring bracelet and came to Las Vegas.įour days after McCoy was slain, McDermott turned herself into police in Indiana. They canvassed the area, interviewed people who knew her and learned that she was seen in the last few days with two people, Roberts said. Last year, she was arrested near downtown for possessing a stolen vehicle.ĭetectives began piecing together a profile of McCoy. McCoy probably fell into a risky lifestyle here - drugs and alcohol, he said. The victim, an Ohio native, was new to Las Vegas, homicide Lt. It took a few days before they pinned him down as a suspect. The evidence that the detectives were looking for was inside. The officer pulled Wynne over, arrested him on several traffic warrants and impounded the car. that day, a patrol officer had spotted a stolen Hyundai driven by 29-year-old Douglas Wynne down the street from the motel. What detectives didn’t know at the time was that one of their suspects already had been caught.Īt 2:30 a.m. The only evidence remaining was a purse and the body of 44-year-old Teresa McCoy, which was wrapped in two shower curtains, a bedspread and two strands of Christmas tree lights and left on the floor. An odor of cleaning materials, possibly bleach, lingered in the room. Cigarette ashes were on the floor, but there were no cigarette butts or ashtrays. When Las Vegas police homicide detectives walked into Room 20 of a Traveler’s Inn on East Fremont Street March 11, they found a crime scene stripped nearly bare of evidence.Īll of the toiletries in the motel room were gone. ![]()
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