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16-Year-Old Kimberly Holton Murdered - Thrown Off Plane into the Ocean · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Two states collaborated to investigate the discovery of a deceased teenage girl known as Jane
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  Doe found in the Atlantic Ocean. Fishermen spotted what they believed to be debris
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  on October eighth, two thousand three, a few miles off the coast of
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  Cape Maine, New Jersey. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be
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  the severely decomposed body of the unidentified girl. NJSP crime scene investigator James Thistle
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  mentioned that a rock crab gnawing at her inner thigh provided crucial information about the
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  location of the body. Rock crabs are bottom feeders, so investigators know that
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  at some point the body did sync to the ocean floor, explained show host
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  Captain Lee. The United States Coast Guard USCG assisted state police in examining the
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  body of an unidentified female found over two miles away from the Jersey shore.
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  The presence of a large metal chain around the victim's ankles and duct tape on
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  her feet and hands led authorities to suspect foul play. It was thought that
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  whoever disposed of the body didn't anticipate that she'd float to the surface so far.
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  According to Thistle, the body was their only clue, and so making
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  an identification was crucial. Thistle said the Jane Doe's fingerprints were so pruned up
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  on account of being in the water that traditional methods of finding a print could
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  not be used. I basically took some saline solution and took a hypodermic needle,
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  Thistle explained. I tied a string around the last knuckle of the finger
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  and I was able to inject the saline solution under that fingerpad and then roll
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  it and get an identifiable fingerprint. The Jain Dough was id'd as sixteen year
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  old Kimberly Holton, a missing foster child out of Dover, Delaware, about
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  forty miles directly northeast of Cape May. About Kimberly Holton's disappearance, Holton's best
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  friend, Destiny Andrews, told Deadly Waters they met on the school bus while
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  in high school, citing Holton as the sweetest person you'd ever meet. The
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  friend said Holton lived with her foster family, the Machetes, as well as
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  a foster sister, Heather. Kim absolutely loved animals. I do believe she
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  would have been some type of vet or vet tech Andrews said she helped animals
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  because nobody helped her when she needed help. On that particular day, Lorraine
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  Machette, the foster mother of Holton, notified the authorities about the teenager's disappearance.
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  The New Jersey State Police, responsible for the investigation following the discovery of
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  the bos in the water, collaborated with the Delaware State Police DSP to gather
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  information regarding the child's history. How did Kimberly Holton die? Detectives investigating the
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  case did not discover any obvious indications of trauma that could clarify Holton's cause of
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  death. Nevertheless, a medical examiner revealed that she had suffered serious blunt force
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  trauma to the head, likely from a fall from a considerable height. According
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  to Investigate A. Thistle, the most compelling physical evidence they found was the
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  chain that restrained the victim's ankles. Thistle noted that each link of the metal
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  coil chain had imprinted numbers, which ultimately guided the detectives to a particular Low's
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  Home improvement store located near Holton's home. During the course of the interview with
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  the manager of that Low's in Dover, he was able to backtrack through the
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  computer system that same length of chain, that same stamp was purchased at that
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  location said date brown, along with clamps clamped to the chain that was found
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  on Kimberly's body, and also cinder blocks. The acquisition took place a mere
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  twenty four hours following Holton's vanishing. A time stamp on the receipt enabled law
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  enforcement to promptly pinpoint surveillance footage of the transaction, revealing two unidentified males.
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  Due to the poor quality of the video and the fact that the items were
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  bought with cash, investigators reached out to the local media to publish still images
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  of the individuals in the hope that the public could provide assistance. Detective Porter
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  informed Deadly Waters that they received an overwhelming number of phone calls, with numerous
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  informants pointing to Robert Brothers. Brothers himself contacted the tip line, confessing that
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  he was with a certain Jacob Jones when the latter bought the chain. A
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  second suspect comes into the picture in Kimberly Holton's murder October twenty third, two
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  thousand three, ten days following the discovery of Holton's body, Jones's father contacted
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  authorities and claimed that Jacob Jones had died from a self inflicted shotgun wound in
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  his bedroom. Shortly before taking his own life, the suspect confessed to his
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  parents that he and his twenty three year old acquaintance Michael Kaiser, had killed
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  Kimberly Holton. What happened in the case, The plane was at such a
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  high altitude when Kimberly's body hit the water, it acted like it hit concrete
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  at one hundred and thirty miles an hour, and the cinder blocks disintegrated upon
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  impact, said Captain Lee. This lack of knowledge on his part allowed the
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  truth to rise to the surface along with Kimberly.