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Kitty Kat West murder trial updates – Husband’s fingerprints found on purported murder weapon used in cam-girl wife’s death

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Cam-girl Kathleen Kitty Kat West was bludgeoned to death with a bottle on the night of Jan 12&comma; 2018&comma; prosecutors said <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Her husband’s fingerprints were found on the purported murder weapon used in cam-girl wife’s death <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Fingerprints belonging to William Jeffery West&comma; 37&comma; were found an absinthe bottle purported to be murder weapon <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>Kathleen West&comma; 42&comma; died of blunt force trauma from being hit in the head with the bottle according to the arrest warrant for her husband Jeffery West <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading"><strong>The prints indicated West held the bottle inverted&comma; by the &&num;8216&semi;throat&&num;8217&semi; instead of the base&comma; an expert told jurors this week <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Jeffrey-West-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-360475"&sol;><figcaption><strong>The fingerprints of William Jeffery West &lbrack;photo&rsqb; were found on the purported murder weapon&period; The prints indicated he held the bottle inverted&comma; by the &&num;8216&semi;throat&&num;8217&semi; instead of the base&comma; an expert witness testified&period;<&sol;strong> <strong>West is accused of  bludgeoning his cam-girl wife with an absinthe bottle<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Prosecutors in a murder trial say an Alabama man accused of killing his &&num;8216&semi;exhibitionist&&num;8217&semi; wife left fingerprint evidence on the alleged murder weapon&period;<br>Prints of the left thumb and left ring finger of William Jeffrey West&comma; 47&comma; were discovered on a bottle of Lucid absinthe that prosecutors say was used to kill his wife&comma; Kathleen Dawn West in their Alabama home on January 12&comma; 2018<br>A fingerprint expert with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency testified during the third day of West’s murder trial Thursday&comma; detailing to jurors how evidence shows the bottle was held inverted by the man – by its &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;throat” instead of its base&comma; according to the report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large" id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;16653034"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Jeffrey-West-left-and-Kat-West-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-360465"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Kathleen West &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; died of blunt force trauma from being hit in the head with the bottle on Jan&period; 12&comma; 2018&comma; according to the arrest warrant for her husband Jeffery West &lbrack;left&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Kathleen West&comma; a 42-year-old stay-at-home mom who lived a double life as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Kitty Kat West” on an adult subscription-only website&comma; died of blunt force trauma from being hit in the head with the bottle on Jan&period; 12&comma; 2018&comma; an arrest warrant for her husband shows&period; <br>Prosecutors claim William West killed his wife during a night of drinking&comma; while his attorney claims the heavily intoxicated woman died from accidentally falling and striking her head&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Kathleen-Dawn-West-3&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;620&percnt;2C597&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"Kathleen Dawn West 3"&sol;><figcaption><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If you don’t want me say it&comma;” Kathleen West wrote her husband in another message<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Baby&comma; I want you&comma;” William West replied&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Jurors also saw screenshots of text messages sent between the pair a month or weeks before her partially nude body was found outside the couple’s home in Calera&period;<br>In one message sent just eight days before her body was found&comma; Kathleen West told her husband she knew he didn’t &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;want to be with me&comma;” but claimed his lies were only hurting her more&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If you don’t want me say it&comma;” Kathleen West wrote her husband in another message&comma; AL&period;com reported&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Baby&comma; I want you&comma;” William West replied&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Do you want me&quest; We never really talked after NYE&period;”<br>A few days earlier&comma; Kat West had texted her husband that it was the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;last time you will guck &lbrack;sic&rsqb; me over&comma;” prosecutors said&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You don’t want me fine&comma;” she wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Someone will&period;”<br>Kat West also told her husband he was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;throwing away 14 years of marriage&comma;” the text messages show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large" id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;16653046"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;William-Jeffery-west-and-Kathleen-Kat-West-5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-360682"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Defense attorneys for William West&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb; countered the prosecution argument of contention in the marriage by showing the jury other texts exchanged by the couple showing a softer side to the relationship<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Josh Charles Robbins&comma; attorney for William West countered the prosecution argument by showing the jury other texts exchanged by the couple showing a softer side&comma; including his client repeatedly referring to his wife as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sexy momma” — and her sending him back topless and other risqué photos&period;&period; <br>Robbins showed dozens more text messages that showed intimacy and love between the couple&period; Jeff West repeatedly referred to his wife in multiple messages as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sexy momma” and Kat West often sent him photos of herself topless and in provocative positions&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Kathleen-Kat-West-14&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-360686"&sol;><figcaption><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Your picture is hot as &lbrack;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&rsqb;&comma;’&&num;8217&semi; Jeff West responded to one of the photos his wife sent to him and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;looking good sexy momma” to another&period; Kat replies&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Thank you for making me feel sexy&period; I love you”<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In one response&comma; the defendant wrote&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Your picture is hot as &lpar;expletive&rpar;&comma;’&&num;8217&semi; Jeff West replied to one of the photos and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;looking good sexy momma” to another&period; She replied to him at one point&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Thank you for making me feel sexy&period; I love you&period;”<br>Among the photos tendered by the defense were two taken on Friday&comma; Jan&period; 12&comma; when police believe Kat West was killed&period; She was wearing a pink bra&comma; pink multi-colored panties and pink stiletto heels&period; Jeff West said he had taken them on her phone for her Instagram page or subscription-only adult website&period;<br>Jurors also watched a 90-minute video of police questioning Jeff West on the day that his wife’s body was found&period; West told police that he went to bed after the pair both had about six drinks&period; Kat West then changed into her lingerie to take photos while he went to bed&comma; William West told police&period; <br>The interview focused mostly on the social media accounts Kat West operated&comma; through which she shared provocative photos of herself for a subscription fee&period; <br>West told cops his wife’s accounts didn’t bother him&comma; it was a way for her to make money&period; He said he would take photos of her for her to sell on the sites&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;01&sol;Kathleen-Dawn-Wests-home&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;620&percnt;2C433&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"Kathleen Dawn West's home&period;jpg"&sol;><figcaption><strong>William West told police he only became aware of his wife&&num;8217&semi;s death when he awoke on Jan 13&comma; 2018 as police descended upon the home he shared with his wife and daughter in Calera&comma; Alabama<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>William West awoke the next morning as police descended upon the couple’s home&period; But while he said he went to bed at 10&colon;30 p&period;m&period;&comma; an app on his phone indicated he took 18 steps between 11&colon;10 and 11&colon;30 p&period;m&period;&comma; AL&period;com reported&period;<br>Kat West was found dead&comma; wearing only a sports bra bra&period; Jeff West said his wife was wearing wearing a bra&comma; underwear&comma; and high heels before he went to bed&period; He said she was wearing a bra&comma; underwear&comma; and high heels&period; It was normal for his wife to walk around the house dressed in those items&comma; he told police<br>The former police officer who pled not guilty months later&comma; also insisted to investigators he was not bothered by his wife’s exhibitionist side&period;He felt secure in their marriage&period; <br>They fought about normal things&comma; like his wife’s drinking&period; He also admitted that he was not as sexual as his wife and maybe that was why she was unhappy&period; Kat liked to have sex four to five times a week and that he bought her sex toys to relieve sexual tension&comma; adding that they had recently spoken of her desire to have sex with other women&comma; including three in their hometown&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There’s nothing to be jealous about&comma;” William West told investigators&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Me and her &lbrack;were&rsqb; in a good spot&period;”<br>At another point&comma; William West insisted to investigators he would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;not hurt my wife&comma; not even accidentally&comma;” <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cbs42&period;com&sol;news&sol;crime&sol;jeff-west-police-interview-contradicts-phone-data-from-night-of-wife-kats-murder&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">he told police<&sol;a>&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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