{"id":62658,"date":"2018-04-10T07:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=62658"},"modified":"2018-04-10T07:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T07:23:04","slug":"mom-says-exhibitionist-kat-west-wasnt-murdered-fell-death-citing-drunken-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/mom-says-exhibitionist-kat-west-wasnt-murdered-fell-death-citing-drunken-antics.html","title":{"rendered":"Mom says exhibitionist Kat West wasn&#8217;t murdered but fell to her death, citing drunken antics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Mom says exhibitionist Kat West wasn&#8217;t murdered but fell to her death, citing drunken antics<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The mother of the small-town Alabama woman who lived a double life as an exhibitionist said she believes her daughter&#8217;s death was a result of her alcoholism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kathleen Dawn &#8220;Kat&#8221; West, 42, was found dead lying face down and partially naked across the street from her home in Shelby County on Jan. 13. Her husband, 44-year-old William Jeffrey West, pleaded not guilty on Monday in her death, for which he&#8217;s charged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">NEW IMAGES OF DOUBLE-LIFE DEAD MOM &#8216;KITTY KAT WEST&#8217; SHOW HER BUYING WHISKEY, ABSINTHE ON LAST NIGHT ALIVE<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kat West&#8217;s mother tearfully said Monday that she believes her son-in-law, a veteran who worked with military police while in the service and was promoted to corporal with the police force at Birmingham-Southern College before his wife&#8217;s death, is not guilty of killing her daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;He didn&#8217;t do this,&#8221; Nancy Martin said, according to AL.com. &#8220;He&#8217;s a good man. He loved her with all his heart.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">She said she and her husband are caring for the couple&#8217;s 13-year-old daughter, and that William West stayed with them for about four weeks during the investigation before his arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The mother added that Kat West was an alcoholic with bi-polar disorder. Martin said she thinks her daughter died after falling \u2014 she &#8220;fell all the time&#8221; \u2014 and had the tendency to get drunk and jump on the trampoline, or would remove her clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">HUSBAND OF ALABAMA DOUBLE-LIFE MOM FOUND DEAD IS INNOCENT IN WIFE&#8217;S DEATH, LAWYER SAYS<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">William West&#8217;s mother, Carolyn West, concurred that Kat West drank to get &#8220;rip-roaring drunk&#8221; and had been known to go outside naked and to fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Both mothers agreed that Kat West was most likely intoxicated when she died and suffered a fatal injury in the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Prosecutors claim that Kat West was killed from getting hit with a Lucid Absinthe bottle. Kat and William West reportedly bought Lucid Absinthe and a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey some eight hours before Kat West&#8217;s body was discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">A cellphone with a green bottle \u2014 the color of Lucid Abstinthe bottles \u2014 was found near the body, which prosecutors said showed evidence of Kat West&#8217;s blood and William West&#8217;s fingerprints. Witnesses reported the scene appeared to have been staged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Carolyn West said that the night before Kat was found, her son &#8220;took her out to dinner, he had a couple of drinks. He went to bed and went to sleep. 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