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K. Whittle and her fourth husband, prominent

2:55

real estate developer Harold Hal Whittle, fell in love the

2:57

moment they laid eyes on one another in

3:00

a Reno airport. Described

3:03

as striking and vivacious, K. was a beautiful

3:05

woman who many would be happy to walk

3:08

into a crowded room with. In

3:11

fact, according to her sister, Hal

3:13

loved walking into restaurants with his wife, enjoying

3:18

the sounds of other men reacting to his, quote, arm candy, who

3:20

even at the age of 60, was

3:25

still turning heads. With

3:27

an even better personality, K. was

3:30

truly loved by many, which

3:32

is what made her shocking murder all

3:35

the more tragic. On

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May 1, 2008, Hal

3:39

Whittle, now 72, left work

3:42

and drove to the upscale Sugar Loaf Springs

3:44

subdivision in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where

3:47

he and his wife of 20 years rented

3:50

a home. So the plan

3:52

was to move into a place of their own sometime soon. All

3:55

that came crashing down when Hal, unable to get K.

3:58

on the phone, walked

4:00

into their house and found her

4:02

lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen

4:05

floor. Deep gouges spread

4:07

across her throat. Completely

4:10

panicked and in shock, Hal ran to

4:13

a neighbor's home and asked for help.

4:17

911 was called, but unfortunately, it was

4:19

too late for Kaye Winall. According to

4:21

the officer who arrived at the scene,

4:24

Hal was, quote, laid down

4:26

beside his wife, begging us

4:28

to help. From what

4:30

they could tell, Kaye had been punched several

4:32

times by some unknown killer, and

4:35

her throat stabbed and slit almost

4:37

to the point of decapitation. There

4:41

were no signs of forced entry, and

4:43

nothing was stolen from their upscale home,

4:46

but the assailant did leave behind a

4:48

bloody towel in the closet of the

4:50

master bedroom. It was

4:52

placed atop the locked cabinet containing all of Kaye's

4:54

jewelry, and when opened,

4:57

a number of pieces of

5:00

leather lingerie. Pieces Hal said

5:02

he had never seen and had no

5:04

idea where they came from. Though

5:07

there was male DNA found at the scene,

5:09

experts were unable to identify the

5:11

source. Now, to understand

5:13

the rest of the story, we have to do a little bit

5:16

of time jumping just for a moment. At

5:18

some point over the course of the

5:20

police investigation, Hal Winall, desperate

5:22

to know what happened that day,

5:24

hired three private investigators who helped

5:27

piece together the final moments of

5:29

Kaye's life. According to

5:31

their findings, Kaye woke up

5:33

the morning of May 1st with every intention

5:36

of going to work, finding

5:38

tenants to fill her husband's successful

5:40

shopping centers. However, not

5:42

feeling well, she changed her mind and

5:44

decided to lay low at home, meaning

5:47

that whoever did this to her

5:50

somehow knew about the change of

5:52

plans. This, coupled with

5:54

the fact that there was no signs of

5:56

forced entry, had many worried that the killer

5:58

was someone close to her. to the Wennells,

6:01

or at the very least, someone

6:03

who Kay felt comfortable letting inside

6:05

of her home. From

6:08

what they could tell based on the

6:10

blood splatter, the attack began right there

6:12

at the threshold of their front door.

6:15

Delivered a blow so strong it

6:17

stunned her and sent her glasses

6:19

flying across the room, Kay then

6:21

fled into the kitchen, perhaps

6:24

to find a phone, and was

6:26

caught by the assailant who, now armed with

6:28

a knife, did what they called

6:30

an insurance cut across

6:32

her throat. Now

6:35

incapacitated, he continued bringing

6:37

down the knife. Nobody

6:39

in the neighborhood saw this man come or

6:41

go from inside the Wennell residence, and

6:44

the murder weapon, an extremely sharp

6:46

instrument, likely a knife, was

6:49

never found. They

6:51

do know that the assailant was wearing

6:53

gloves. Pieces of latex were found at

6:55

the scene, but with the

6:57

exception of that bloody towel, no other

7:00

evidence was found. No

7:02

fingerprints, footprints, hairs, or

7:04

fibers. And most

7:07

troubling, no obvious motive.

7:10

Just six days after her body

7:12

was discovered, friends and family gathered

7:14

to say goodbye. The

7:16

funeral was packed with mourners, and it

7:19

became clear that, though they took surveillance

7:21

footage of the crowd to see if

7:23

they could find anything suspicious, Kay

7:25

Wennell had no known enemies.

7:28

Nobody was threatening her to her loved one's

7:31

knowledge. No one scared her. And

7:33

none of them, no matter how strange

7:35

the case got, ever expected

7:37

how Wennell's involvement, not

7:40

even her own sister. The police,

7:42

however, didn't agree with their steadfast

7:44

support. Claiming he was a

7:47

suspect from day one, as the

7:49

husband usually is, Howe was eager

7:51

to cooperate with the investigation and agreed

7:53

to a police interview without a lawyer

7:55

present. Handing over

7:57

an ironclad alibi with video.

8:00

The balance prove it. Police searched

8:02

his records to see if there

8:04

was any evidence of the wealthy

8:06

man hiring a hit man, but

8:08

found absolutely nothing of concern. The

8:11

only thing he seemed a truly guilty of

8:14

was trying to protect the memory of his

8:16

beloved wife. Who. As the

8:18

investigation would uncover. Seem. To

8:20

have a secret life that no one really

8:23

knew about. One. Involving

8:25

a colorful past three previous

8:27

as them. And. A

8:30

handful of affairs. Sources:

8:32

Claim that how knew about this

8:34

quote Secret Life. Was. Likely even

8:37

a part of it. But. It came

8:39

as a shock to everyone else when

8:41

the search of their home turned up

8:43

outfits the detectives described as. Fetish.

8:45

Were. So. He

8:48

initially claimed he did not know about the items.

8:50

How. Later changed his story to say that

8:52

they came from part of a cost him she

8:54

wore to a masquerade party. As

8:57

further searches turned up more items

8:59

that. Sources: Say we're all

9:01

X rated. All of these things

9:03

went credit to the theory that

9:05

K must have known her killer

9:07

and willingly let him into her

9:09

home. Possibly. A man

9:11

whom she was having an affair with. Three.

9:15

Weeks after her murder, How went All

9:17

offered a reward that eventually would reach

9:19

a total of a quarter of a

9:22

million dollars in hopes of finding out

9:24

who killed the love of his life.

9:26

But. Months went by with absolutely no

9:29

leads and that's when how The side

9:31

a higher, His own team, the private

9:33

investigators, Led by retired

9:35

F B I agent eds him

9:38

in he personally recruited to more

9:40

members of his team. His. Ex

9:42

Wife Kathleen Simmons and John

9:44

in Sagna. Much

9:47

of what we've already talked about in

9:49

the story was uncovered by this team

9:51

who in the beginning only really had

9:53

one clue to work off of. according

9:56

to a witness a stranger was seen

9:59

in the neighborhood the same afternoon

10:01

Kay was killed and a sketch

10:03

was made of the man, the neighbor claimed

10:05

he saw once the day of the

10:07

murder and another time the day before.

10:09

A man

10:11

who allegedly had a flyer for a home that

10:13

was for sale in the subdivision that

10:15

when asked the neighbor told him

10:18

was on the opposite side and watched as

10:20

he walked out of sight. Police

10:22

later discovered that the flyer was only

10:25

given to people who had already been

10:27

inside the home for showings that day,

10:29

the day before Kay's murder and

10:31

the following day that same neighbor was looking

10:34

out his bathroom window and claimed

10:36

he saw the man walking towards the Winnell

10:38

residence. Not sure

10:40

if this man was the killer or simply in

10:42

the wrong place at the wrong time, for

10:45

the next eight plus years police

10:47

tried and failed to identify this

10:49

mystery man and

10:52

after checking into every single man

10:54

in Kay's life including her

10:56

doctor, a restaurant manager and

10:59

even a clerk at a local hobby lobby

11:01

who had a crush on her they still

11:03

failed to come up with another viable suspect.

11:06

The case seemed to be

11:08

frozen solid. This however didn't mean

11:11

that they stopped following up on every

11:13

lead that they had. Like in July

11:15

of 2012 when they

11:17

publicly appealed for information regarding the

11:19

identity of an unknown man seen

11:22

in photographs that they hoped

11:24

might hold the key to finding out

11:26

who murdered Kay Winnell. Discovered

11:28

after relatives handed over a box of Kay's

11:30

possessions to the police after

11:33

Hal Winnell died of a heart attack,

11:35

the man in the photos who might have

11:38

been a family friend bore a striking resemblance

11:40

to the sketch created of the man seen

11:42

walking in the neighborhood back in May of

11:44

2008. Along

11:46

with the release of the photos was

11:48

the mention of a note written using

11:51

cut up letters from magazines and

11:53

though dusted for prints and coming back with

11:55

nothing of value officials released

11:58

a photo of the letter in hopes

12:00

of that someone somewhere might recognize what

12:02

they believed might have been a key

12:04

piece of evidence. The

12:06

letter itself talks about a relationship

12:08

or possible relationship that this person

12:10

had with Kaye Winall and

12:13

in one line stated, quote, she

12:15

loved me, but that was a

12:17

lie too. The

12:19

letter also referred to amongst

12:21

a number of expletives, quote,

12:24

I bet Kaye Winall never told anyone

12:26

what she really was referring

12:28

to her as a quote, money

12:31

grubbing whore claim that she hated her

12:33

home and her quote, that

12:35

miserable lying mother effing husband and

12:38

stated, quote, I told her

12:40

this would happen if she didn't keep her

12:42

goddamn promise to me. Possibly

12:45

depicting a motive for the murder,

12:47

the letter was allegedly mailed to

12:49

the Atlanta Journal Constitution's Norcross office

12:51

months after Kaye was found dead

12:54

and the papers quickly turned it over to

12:56

the police. It was

12:58

postmarked July 21st, 2008 and was mailed from

13:03

Augusta, Georgia, about 140 miles

13:05

away from the crime scene. They

13:08

believe that whoever constructed the letter is

13:10

the same person who brutally killed Kaye

13:12

Winall. Unfortunately, even when

13:14

taken apart carefully in hopes of

13:17

finding any forensics, the letter

13:19

and the envelope it came in did

13:21

nothing to yield any new clues. But

13:24

what it did prove was that whoever

13:26

did this did so carefully

13:29

and methodically a scorned

13:32

lover with a plan. The

13:35

last real update in the case came in

13:37

2017 when police publicly stated that they were

13:39

still trying to identify the man in the

13:41

photo as well as the man in the

13:43

sketch who they thought were one and the

13:46

same. According to

13:48

the sources just before his death, having

13:50

never gotten the answers he was desperate

13:52

for, how Winall suggested to

13:54

police that they look into the men in

13:56

Kaye's past. Men like

13:58

Jeff Gilbert, Her third

14:00

husband, whom she was still married to

14:03

when she met Hal, threatened her when she tried

14:05

to leave him, and a few

14:07

months before her murder, called Kay to ask

14:09

if they could meet up when he was

14:11

in Atlanta. She said no,

14:13

and he was livid. Police

14:17

say, however, that there was no indication he

14:19

was involved in her murder. There

14:21

is also speculation that whoever killed

14:24

Kay Winnell might have instead

14:26

been trying to send a message to her

14:28

husband, Hal. A

14:30

seemingly incredibly successful salesman, Hal

14:33

might have been in some trouble work-wise

14:35

around the time of the murder, possibly

14:38

even engaging in some fraud.

14:41

Could Kay have gotten caught up in

14:43

his shady business dealings and died as

14:45

a result? Despite theories

14:48

mentioning the mafia, Hal could think

14:50

of no one who hated him

14:52

enough to commit murder, and

14:55

a hitman theory seemed unlikely given

14:57

the up-close nature of the murder.

14:59

The letter, the one with the cut-up

15:01

letters, seemed to further disprove any

15:03

hitman or Hal centered

15:06

theories. So, was

15:08

Kay Winnell killed by a scorned lover,

15:11

or was she killed by someone who had

15:13

a lot to gain by her death? Questions

15:16

continue, and answers seem hard

15:18

to come by. The case,

15:21

unfortunately, remains unsolved. Thank

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