Body of pregnant mom-of-two, 22, is found on Missouri street in suspected homicide after she was last seen walking to a gas station on Thanksgiving
A pregnant mother-of-two from the suburbs of St. Louis has been found dead one day after she was reported missing on Thanksgiving morning, in what police are now calling an apparent homicide.
The discovery of 22-year-old Amethyst 'Ame' Killian’s personal belongings was linked to the discovery of her body around noon on Friday, just a block away from her St. Peters home.
Family members initially reported Killian missing at around 8pm on Thursday when she did not return home all day.
Amethyst Killian, 22, was found murdered in suburban St Louis on Friday. She was a mom-of-two who was expecting her third child (pictured right with her boyfriend and baby)
Killian left her home in St Peters, Missouri , at 1am on Thanksgiving morning
Killian was last seen alive walking to this QuikTrip gas station near her home
Killian was the mother of a seven-year-old girl and a five-month-old boy, and she had only recently learned she was pregnant with her third child, KDSK reported.
According to her relatives, Killian left her home in the 200 block of Main Street in St Peters at around 1am on Thursday to walk to a nearby QuikTrip gas station. She never made it back home.
Police have not said why Killian decided to venture outside in the middle of the night.
At around noon on Friday - more than 12 hours after she was reported missing - police got a call from Killian's relatives stating that they had found her cellphone charger stained with blood not far from the home she shared with her mother, stepfather, children and boyfriend.
Officers were dispatched to the area and found a woman's body lying in the 100 block of North Church Street.
The body was later identified as Killian, and the Major Case Squad launched a homicide investigation.
The following day, Killian's family found her blood-stained phone charger and other items, leading to the discovery of her body
Investigators have not revealed Killian’s cause of death, only saying it was an ‘apparent homicide’
Killian lived with her boyfriend, her seven-year-old daughter, five-month-old son, her mother and stepfather
Investigators have not revealed Killian’s cause of death, only saying it was an ‘apparent homicide.’
Family members described Killian as a loving mother who was artistic and creative.
Killian's heartbroken mother, Stacy Stelzer, told Fox 2 Now she just wants to find out what happened to her daughter.
Neighbor Susan Brown told KSDK she would often see the 22-year-old walk outside with her baby in a stroller.
‘She seemed like a wonderful mother,’ Brown said. ‘They just seemed like such a close, wonderful family.’