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On the 25th of January, 2005, 10-year-old Katlyn “Katie” Collman departed her Crothersville, Indiana, home, to pick up some toilet paper from a Dollar Store just a couple of blocks away. When she didn’t come home, her parents reported her missing and an AMBER Alert was issued. A search team was quickly assembled but there was no sign of Katie.

Five days later, Katie’s lifeless body was discovered in a creek approximately 15 miles from her home. She had been raped before being forcibly drowned in the creek. Nearby, investigators found a discarded cigarette butt which they DNA tested and compared it to the DNA found on Katie’s body. It was a match; the DNA testing results led to Anthony Ray Stockelman. After pleading guilty in exchange for the death penalty being taken off the table, Stockelman was sentenced to life imprisonment.

While the story should have ended there, it certainly didn’t. Also incarcerated in the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, where Stockelman was serving his sentence, was Katie’s cousin, Jared Harris. On 22 September, 2006, Harris slipped into Stockelman’s open cell. When Stockelman entered the cell, Harris slammed the locked door behind them. He then held Stockelman down and tattooed “KATIE’S REVENGE” on his forehead