Mordet på Eva Söderström, Kramfors (1987-09-25)

‘She Was Still Alive’: Forensics Expert Says Disturbed Piedmont Park Killer Tortured Victim Alive Before Killing Her

It was a warm summer night in the south when Katherine “Katie” Janness decided to take her dog Bowie for a walk at Atlanta’s famous Piedmont Park.

But something evil awaited Katie and Bowie inside the park. Something sinister and ungodly.

Emma says she got off work and rode her bike home and Katie was not there. Katie should have been back from walking Bowie by the time Emma got home. Emma called Katie’s cell phone but got no answer. Emma says she then sent several text messages that also went unanswered.

This was not like Katie not to respond. Emma became worried and went to look for her.

It showed Katie’s cell phone was about 100 yards inside the park and not moving. Emma thought maybe Katie had dropped her phone. So, she entered the park passed the tall stone gate, and almost immediately saw Bowie laying in the middle of the cement path.

As Emma approached Bowie she could see that he was dead. She continued down into the park toward the “dot” showing Katie’s cell phone location and about 100 feet from Bowie, Emma saw Katie laying on the ground. She rushed over to her to “check her pulses” but “it was clear she was dead.”

This attack had to have started right after Katie entered the park. Where Bowie was found suggests he was killed first and Katie likely tried to run away, but the killer caught her after about 100 steps. According to the autopsy report, Katie died due to “sharp force injuries of her face, neck, and torso that caused injuries of major blood vessels and internal organs.”

She had numerous cuts and stab wounds to her hands. These are called defensive wounds because the victim is trying to stop the attacker from stabbing her face, chest, or other vital areas. The autopsy report reveals that Katie was stabbed over 50 times.

The killer also took the time to carve letters into Katie’s torso: F, A, and T. Carving letters or words into a victim are for the psychological gratification of the killer. This action has nothing to do with accomplishing a murder.

Former medical examiner and forensics investigator JoScott Morgan tells me according to the autopsy, Katie was alive while these letters are being carved into her body! She was still alive while this killer tortured her which Morgan says, “is indicative of the hemorrhage is Antemortem meaning these injuries occurred before death.”

JoScott Morgan has worked thousands of homicides from domestics to serial killers. This case is more sinister than most.

“This killer took extra time to write on this live victim. Pull her pants down. Stab her more than 50 times. They had some skill with instrumentation,” Morgan said. “Was this killer using a medical tool or multiple edge weapons”?

Morgan goes on to say this killer would have been “saturated in blood.” He went further into the details of the wounds and asked, “was this killer using a medical tool or multiple edge weapons”?

This murderer took extra time, unnecessary time with the victim. According to adjunct professor of forensic psychology, Stephanie Scott-Snyder, there were “obvious signs of overkill with sexual targeting and mutilation which is common in attacks committed by (sexual) sadists.

The act of carving the letters F-A-T into Katie’s abdomen wasn’t necessary to kill her, rather it fulfilled an emotional need for her murderer,” she added.

Karen Greer said, “You can hear people at a nearby restaurant talking and laughing but no one reported hearing screams that night!”

Does this mean her throat was cut first? Was she fighting for her life and could not scream?

Katherine "Katie" Janness, 40, hittades död i Piedmont Park runt klockan 01 på morgonen den 28 juli, tillsammans med sin dödade hund, Bowie, i vad polisen beskrev som en "hemsk" scen. Janness hade mer än 50 sår i ansiktet, halsen, bröstet, ryggen, armarna och händerna, enligt Fulton Countys utredares rapport. "Det är min åsikt att Katherine Janness dog på grund av kraftiga våldsskador i ansiktet, halsen och bålen som orsakade skador på stora blodkärl och inre organ", skrev chefsläkaren Dr Karen Sullivan i rapporten, daterad 10 november. "Sättet för Janness död klassas som ett mord." Minst 15 av skärsåren var i Janness ansikte, och mer än ett dussin var på hennes nedre rygg, enligt obduktionsrapporten. Bokstäverna "F", "A" och "T" hittades också etsade på hennes bröst, sa läkaren. Janness led också av trubbiga skador.

Atlanta Police Department och FBI utreder mordet, och en belöning på $10 000 erbjuds för information som kan hjälpa till att leda till en arrestering.

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Ett foto av knivhuggande dödsoffret Katherine Janness och hennes hund Bowie sitter bland ett växande minnesmärke i Piedmont Park i Atlanta, 3 augusti 2021