St. Petersburg, FL: Newly released court papers say that the woman who was found hanging in the garage of a St. Petersburg home last week was killed.
The St. Petersburg Police Department searched the home that Katrin Simpson, 59, and her 48-year-old boyfriend Gregory Shinn lived in together. Police have named Shinn as a suspect in the case, but they have not charged him with a crime or made his name public.
In the garage on February 20, Simpson’s boyfriend found her hanging. He then went to a neighbor’s house and asked them to call 911. When the neighbour asked Shinn why he didn’t call 911 himself, he told her he “did not have a phone,” according to court records.
Shinn told the police that he had been watching YouTube videos in his bedroom and went to check on his lover because he hadn’t heard from her in a while.
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Paramedics found the person with a black wire around her neck that was attached to a garage beam when they got there. Cuts on her face, hand, and wrist, broken ribs, a neck fracture, and a brain hemorrhage were some of the injuries she had.
Police say Shinn told them she thought about killing herself in the days before she died. They do think, though, that the injuries “were not consistent with the allegation that the victim hung herself.”
Police say Shinn has been charged with domestic abuse twice in the last three years against the same person. Shinn allegedly told them that she hurt herself when she hit a door with a sledgehammer while they were working in the garage and it fell on her.
Police asked for a search order to find the tools, home cameras, DNA evidence, the victim’s diary, the wire used to hang him, and “any phone or electronic device capable of broadcasting YouTube to confirm or deny Gregory Shinn’s timeline.”
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The warrant said that detectives were looking for the “My Feelings” diary because a neighbor told the victim to write down what they thought was domestic violence.