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A existent transgression communicative astir unfolded close before Katie Santry’s eyes.
After a TikToker shared Oct. 1 that she recovered a rolled-up rug buried heavy successful her backyard portion she and her boyfriend Brandon were digging holes for a caller fence, it yet led to forensic teams investigating her Columbus, OH yard.
But portion quality remains were yet not found, arsenic section constabulary confirmed to E! News Oct. 4, it was a saga that gripped the internet. Here’s a breakdown of precisely what happened—and wherefore TikTok was convinced thing afoul was afoot.
While Katie archetypal didn’t deliberation overmuch of the rug she discovered, that crook erstwhile she woke 1 greeting to a shattered laptop surface and a table successful disarray. After her boyfriend, his kids and her lad insisted they hadn’t been adjacent the sunroom, she wondered if determination were a paranormal transportation betwixt the shattered laptop and the rug.
“Is determination a dormant assemblage successful that rug?” Katie speculated successful an Oct. 1 TikTok. “Or is it the shade of the rug’s past? What connected world happened? Is determination a shade breaking my stuff?"
So, she and Brandon kept digging, documenting their advancement online. Though, the mates were yet forced to halt owed to the hard crushed and existing structures successful their lawn.
Yet, Katie couldn’t shingle the thought of what could be. “What if determination truly is simply a body?” she explained to People. “How could you not assistance that idiosyncratic find peace? How could you not assistance a family?”
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So, connected Oct. 2 she called authorities. And portion she admitted the telephone could beryllium a dumb one, 2 officers showed up to her location wrong 15 minutes. While they acknowledged the concern was unusual, according to Katie, they said the effort to excavation outweighed the concern truthful they’d alternatively bash immoderate online digging.
Not that the determination came arsenic a full daze to Katie. "I genuinely don't deliberation there's a dormant assemblage down there," she told People. "The curiosity astir wherefore that rug is determination decidedly haunts me. But my biggest interest is my machine because, astatine the extremity of the day, it shattered for nary evident reason. That leaves maine with the astir question marks.”
Yet arsenic her antithetic communicative gained much attraction online—she earned much than 1.4 cardinal followers successful 3 days—the section homicide section decided to nonstop detectives and cadaver dogs (specially trained to find quality remains) to her home on Oct. 3. And successful footage Katie shared from the visit, some dogs are seen instantly hitting the country wherever she discovered the rug.
Theyre digging now. Next update volition beryllium immoderate comes of this dig.
♬ archetypal dependable - Katie SantryWhich meant the section would past nonstop forensics teams to excavation successful the area, arsenic constabulary besides confirmed to E! News. The probe resumed Oct. 4.
After the dogs’ visit, Katie shared, “Basically from determination everything went to f--king s--t. I was terrified, losing my mind. I asked the cops if I request a lawyer, they’re precise alert that I’m the 1 who called and they person nary concerns it was me.”
Next, “Crime country investigators volition beryllium present digging,” she continued. “And they said there’s inactive a accidental that this rug could conscionable person humor connected it. It doesn’t needfully mean determination is simply a assemblage successful my backyard.”
“There’s a structure acceptable up, and there’s 9 constabulary officers and CSI successful the backyard,” she shared connected TikTok Oct. 4. “They’ve blocked however acold I’m adjacent allowed to go, and they’re bringing instrumentality successful now.”
THERE IS NO BODY!!!👏🏼🙏🏼🙌🏼 But one inactive privation to know, WHO BROKE MY LAPTOP?!?
♬ archetypal dependable - Katie Santry“They’re digging, they’ve been digging,” she added. “Some of them are successful the hole."
“We inactive don’t cognize anything,” she noted. “The dogs could person had a atrocious day, had an disconnected scent, who knows.”
Hopefully, she added, “We tin each laughter astir this tomorrow.”
And, arsenic it turns out, laughter they will. Or astatine the precise least, Katie tin present respire a suspiration of alleviation because, ultimately, nary quality remains were recovered connected her property.
“They person covered the hole,” Katie updated her followers. “This has been the astir insane acquisition of my life. No, they didn’t find a body. The recovered a mother-effing rug with immoderate rubber.”
And portion Katie inactive wondered astir her breached laptop, the result wasn’t an undesirable one.
“There’s nary body,” Katie concluded her video. “Yay!”
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