

OnlyFans users increased 75% when the pandemic stranded millions at home without jobs.īut long before COVID-19 caused nationwide lockdowns, Kat West had posted suggestive pictures of herself online. "There are some really weird people on the internet," Kwei says. The requests are not always respectful, says New York City paramedic Lauren Kwei, who began posting nudes on OnlyFans under an alias in 2019 to help her make ends meet. The site offers providers and subscribers a way to communicate and make arrangements for personalized content. By 2018, Kat had joined a popular subscription site called OnlyFans, in which providers can post adult photos and videos for paying subscribers. When the Wests moved to Alabama in 2014, she says Kat's online activity spiked. "My husband would go, 'Oh my gosh!'"īrittany told "48 Hours" Kat revealed that she regularly posted racy photos to a pay-per-view website and that it bolstered Kat's self-esteem.

"She would … jump from the kitchen counter to the sofa and shirtless, braless," Brittany says.
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Kat was flamboyant and impulsive - especially after drinking. Jeff - a former Army recruiter, working as a campus police officer - was buttoned-down. She says the Wests had an unconventional marriage. "It just did not seem right that it … would have landed in such a way … other than being staged." Mehlhoff told "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher for "The Mysterious Death of Kat West," airing Saturday, February 19 at 9/8c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Inside the night that led to Kat West's mysterious death 13 photos Next to Kat's body, Mehlhoff says he noticed another critical clue: Kat's phone with a nearly half-full liquor bottle propped on top of it. "It did appear that the body had been moved," said Calera Police Sergeant Mike Mehlhoff, who arrived about half an hour later. She was lying in a pool of blood with a roughly two-inch gash on the left side of her head. The half-naked body in the frigid, pre-dawn wind struck investigators right away.įirst responders to a quiet suburb in Calera, Alabama, the morning of Janufound Kathleen West, a 42-year-old wife and mother widely known as Kat, dead in the street from blunt force trauma.
