Just in time for Halloween!

We've just had a nice murder in my neighborhood. It happened across the street and up one from my house.



















Bonus Question: Without reading the article, identify which of these two people where the victim.


Here is video from Channel 4.

Here is Channel 5 video. If you see the little Black Scion XB in the driveway, that is my house.

Here is Channel 11, which I highly recommend watching the video for the great cameo appearance by my buddy ******* ********.

Here is the full article link from the paper and I have copied it here since the paper usually deletes them after a while.

ST. CHARLES COUNTY — A St. Charles County man said he strangled his girlfriend in a "meth-induced rage" Tuesday morning and stashed her body in the trunk of her car, authorities said Thursday.Michael E. Estep, 27, of the 1000 block of Providence Pointe Drive near Wentzville, was charged with first-degree murder in the strangling of Tamera Hauser, 47. Estep was being held Thursday in lieu of $500,000 bail.Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department said Estep told investigators he had been using methamphetamine for "three or four days" when he and Hauser began arguing.Sheriff's Detective Jana Walters said in a court document filed Thursday that Estep admitted he strangled Hauser, duct-taped her at her ankles, arms and waist, then put her body in the trunk of her car parked in front of the home where they had been living for the past three weeks.
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A co-worker of Hauser's called police about 9:25 a.m. Tuesday, when she did not show up for work. By early afternoon, a missing-person report was being issued to police agencies.Estep called sheriff's deputies about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday and said he had information about a missing person, McGuire said.When detectives arrived at the home Wednesday afternoon, "he was very nervous and acting really weird," McGuire said."One of our officers asked, 'Is she alive?' and he said, 'No,'" McGuire said.McGuire said the couple had known each other for about a year. Estep has no previous criminal record in St. Charles County.The killing is the third in the county this year.Hauser had worked at MTM Inc., a medical transportation company, based in Lake Saint Louis, for seven years.Estep had been working as a cook at the 54th Street Grill in Wentzville, said Mark Wade, 41, an autoworker who had been renting Estep and Hauser a room in his house for the past three weeks.Wade said the couple had been planning to move out Tuesday, and he became worried when he had not seen or heard from Hauser. Wade said he was good friends with Hauser and said she didn't use drugs."Tammy was such a good person," Wade said. "She really had a kind heart."Wade said he is distraught that she may have been strangled in his house while he was asleep."I feel like if I didn't let them stay here, it might not have happened," Wade said.Co-worker Sandra Spooner described Hauser as outspoken and a dedicated worker who loved her two chihuahuas."She was a fun-loving person who took work seriously," Spooner said. "You couldn't help but just love her. We're very sad."Funeral arrangements were pending Thursday.