Travis, a waiter on parole for a 1989 robbery conviction, was arrested on Jand authorities began an extensive search of his house in Ferguson, Missouri. Police soon traced the map back to the only IP address to download it recently and the username was MSN/maurytravis, whose real name is Maury Troy Travis. He wrote he would tell where many others were located, and to prove he was indeed the killer he gave 'directions to number seventeen', attaching a typed internet-generated map. The writer of letter claimed responsibility for nine unsolved murders in the area. One or more limbs and one or both hands were not recovered. Charles Street and scattered over a thirty foot wide area. Her remains were found west of Highway 67 and south of St.
The victim was discovered after an anonymous letter was sent to local Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Smith on May 21, 2002.