Carol Phillips

…Carol couldn't emphasize this point enough. She has a tattoo on her arm that says, never hold a grudge. Underneath it is John's signature and a bunch of X's and O's in his own handwriting from an old card that he'd wrote her. The quote is something that John once said to Carol that has stuck with her ever since.…

…I knew he didn't do it. So while investigators were processing evidence, Carol started some investigating of her own. And she was determined to provide and prove an alternate theory. From the get, she was suspicious of the other partygoers, particularly Rich, also a 19-year-old boy named Ronnie, and a 15-year-old girl named Diane.…

…Unfortunately, Carol was not at the scene to tell detectives any of that. She and the rest of her family were interviewed after the identification, so the assumption that morning was that though the scene looked bizarre with all of these weapons everywhere, this was likely a suicide. But detectives still had to do their due diligence until the ME's officia…