Katherine Korzillius - Unsolved Murder case Jessica S.
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Her body was found in her neighborhood an hour later, Dead.
On August 7, 1996, Nancy Korzilius, Her mother, took Katherine and her Brother, Chris, shopping. They went out shopping while Paul Korzilius, Her father, was out of town helping Bon Jovi promote his new tour. After Katherine, Chris, and her mother got done shopping they headed home. Katherine asked if she could walk home sense they were close to home and she wanted to pick up the mail for her mother so Nancy didn't have to do it. Nancy, seeing no harm in this, gave Katherine the mail box key and dropped her off when she got in the neighborhood. Then Nancy and Chris drove home expecting to see Katherine soon. At this point it was 4:15 P.M.
5:00 P.M. : Katherine has not returned home yet and Nancy was panicing so she called the police. The Police said they can not classify her as missing until after 24 hours of her being gone. At being told that Nancy got Chris into the car. She was going to search for her herself. Later after circling the neighborhood, Nancy found Katherine's body on a path that she normally didn't take home.
Frantic, Nancy ran quickly to Katherine and rushed her to the nearest hospital. Six hours later at 11:30 P.M. Katherine was offically declaired brain-dead. The hospital explains before she went brain-dead; "She had a fractured skull and several bruises and uneven cuts on one hip, both knees, both elbows, the left shoulder blade and the small of her back. These can all be caused by either Falling, Jumping, or being thrown from a moving vehicle. Also there was no evidence of sexual assault only physical trauma."
Later, Police sent the K9 unit to track Katherine's scent. They walked around the whole block where she was found starting at the mail boxes. The trail went off to a vacant lot, her scent dissappered only to be found again where Katherine's body was found.
Police and Private Detectives summed up that she encountered her attacker, ran into the vacant lot to try to escape. Then was picked up and thrown into a vehicle. They never found out if she was thrown out of the vehicle or jumped. But the fracture in her skull was larger size to have been caused by a fall. She had to have been struck in the head many times with some type of weapon. They still have not found the Killer of Katherine Korzilius.
What I think happened was while Katherine was walking to the mail boxes some guy or a group of guys came up to her in a vehicle of some sort. She probably saw that they were suspicious and ran to get away. So some probably got out of the vehicle to chase her as the driver drove around so they could put her in the vehicle. She probably was resisting so one or more hit her in the back of her head to get her to stop running, Picked her up then brought her to the vehicle; that's where her trail ends for now. Then when in the vehicle they probably either threw her out cause they didn't want her anymore or she jumped to get away. When she landed and got all scratched up. She ended up unconscious. Then later when Nancy went to go look for her she found Katherine laying there in the road. Then while in the hospital, sence her body was so small cause she was only six, her brain couldn't handle the damage and basically died out on her. Also sense her family was close to Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi wrote a song about Katherine. He said that was the least he could do for the Korzilius family.
