MISSOURI
Fox 4
[with video]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Jackson County authorities said a Grandview woman’s death in late October initially appeared to be a suicide, until a man confessed to killing the her on Friday.
The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office said Bethany Deaton was found dead inside a car on Oct. 30, at Longview Lake. A probable cause statement said there was a note that read, “My name is Bethany Deaton. I chose this evil thing. I did it because I wouldn’t be a real person and what is the point of living if it is too late for that? I wish I had chosen differently a long time ago. I knew it all and refused to listen. Maybe Jesus will still save me.” The statement also said there were pills found near Deaton.
But according to her admitted killer, 23-year-old Micah Moore, it was all a cover-up to keep Deaton quiet.
The statement said witnesses told detectives they were a part of a “religious community” where they had sex with each other. Witnesses told detectives Deaton’s husband, Tyler Deaton, was the leader.
In the statement, Moore told detectives Bethany Deaton was being sexually assaulted by him, and several men at a home in Grandview. That is how Moore said he knew Deaton and her husband.
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