A Young Woman’s Mysterious Death: Suicide or Murder?
her young life—a favorite song (country star Jason Aldean’s “My Kinda Party”), her teenage to-dos (“Go paintballing!!”)—Kaylyn Whitaker made special note of Feb. 23, 2013. “Connor & Kaylyn’s first date,” she wrote. That May, Connor Scott escorted Kaylyn to her senior prom, wearing a white tux and a corsage to match Kaylyn’s peach-colored dress—and then just months later came an engagement ring. As Kaylyn and Connor moved in together in the basement of his parents’ Martinsville, Ill., home in September 2014, Kaylyn’s list-making turned
