The mysterious murder of a 42-year-old married mother in Alabama has revealed the double life she led as an online exhibitionist who charged men $15.99 to follow her on a website.
Dawn Martin West was found dead in the street outside her family home in Calera, Alabama, on Saturday morning.
She was wearing just a sports bra and was lying face down, bleeding from the head.
A neighbor who found her said there was a cell phone lying nearby which had a bottle of liquor strategically placed on top of it.
Police have not yet made any arrests and are refusing to answer questions on the case.
Dawn Martin West, 42, was found dead in the street outside her home in Calera, Alabama, on Saturday. The mother-of-one also had a subscription website where she posted explicit photographs
The woman’s 44-year-old husband, who she described as being in the military on social media, has not commented and it is not known if he was inside the home when she died or when she was found.
It is also not known whether their 12-year-old daughter was inside.
As police work to piece together what happened, Dawn’s alter-ego, Kitty Kat, has emerged.
That is the name she used for herself on Twitter and on a fan page where customers paid $15.99-a-month to access explicit photographs and videos.
Dawn encouraged Twitter followers to sign up to the service. Her last tweet was from the night before she died.
As of Friday, her page had been ‘liked’ by more than 800 people.
Neighbors have described the woman as quiet, saying the family kept to themselves.
On Facebook, Dawn occasionally posted risque photographs, but most were of her with her daughter and her husband.
The 42-year-old was described by neighbors as an ordinary mother who kept to herself in the home where she lived with her 12-year-old daughter and husband
Dawn and her husband William are shown above. It is not known if he was inside the house when she died
On her fan website and on Twitter, the woman called herself Kitty Kat and posted explicit photographs and videos
The woman posted hundreds of photographs, two videos and had more than 800 ‘likes’ on her subscription fan page
The woman pleaded with Twitter followers to join her subscription service
On Twitter, however, she teased fans with new photographs she had uploaded to her subscription page and wrote tantalizing captions including: ‘Sinful Sundays’.
On Friday, the Calera Police Chief refused to answer questions about her killing when contacted by DailyMail.com.
The neighbor who found Dawn has not spoken out, but her father recalled her making the grisly discovery.
He said that when she found Dawn in the street, she rushed back inside to get her father.
He came outside and touched her back to see if she was breathing and called 911 when he realized she was not.
Police Chief Sean Lemley said in a statement at the time: ‘The Calera Police Department is conducting investigation.
The victim, Kathleen Dawn West, was discovered deceased early this morning.
‘This case is still on-going and no other information can be released at this time,’ he said.
Dawn was found on the street outside her four-bedroom home in Calera, Alabama, on Saturday morning. She was found by neighbors