Kacie Woody | |
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 Undated school portrait of Kacie | |
| Born | October 17, 1989 Little Rock, Arkansas, United States |
| Died | December 4, 2002 (aged 13) Conway, Arkansas, United States |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wound to the head |
| Body discovered | December 4, 2002 |
| Resting place | South Crossroads Church Cemetery, Rose Bud, Arkansas[1] |
| Education | Greenbrier Middle School |
| Occupation | Student |
| Known for | Victim of catfishing and murder by an online predator |
| Website | Memorial website at the Wayback Machine (archived June 16, 2024) |
Kacie Rene Woody (October 17, 1989 – December 4, 2002) was an American teenager from Holland, Arkansas, who was lured, abducted, and murdered by 47-year-old David Leslie Fuller[2] from La Mesa, California. She had met Fuller, who claimed to be a 17-year-old named Dave Fagen living in San Diego,[3] in a Yahoo! Messenger Christian chat room for teens. Fuller traveled to Arkansas and abducted Kacie from her home on the night of December 3, 2002. The next day, the bodies of both Kacie and Fuller were found in the rear of a minivan inside a storage unit in Conway; Fuller had shot himself as law enforcement closed in on the unit.[4]
Kacie's case is possibly the first well-documented case of a pedophile using the Internet to groom, abduct, and murder a victim,[citation needed] being featured on the Investigation Discovery documentary shows Web of Lies[5] and Man with a Van.[6] After Kacie's murder, her friends and family founded the Kacie Woody Foundation to educate parents and children about the dangers associated with the Internet.
- ^ "Kacie Woody obituary". Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- ^ "David Fuller obituary". Legacy.com. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- ^ Frye, Cathy (December 17, 2003). "Caught in the Web part IV: But not forgotten". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- ^ Wiese, Kelly (December 6, 2002). "Ark. Police Find Girl, Man Dead in Unit". Associated Press. Conway, Arkansas. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
- ^ Investigation Discovery (January 15, 2014). "Web of Lies: Age, Sex, Location". Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- ^ Investigation Discovery (February 20, 2020). "Man With a Van: Catfish Killer". Retrieved December 9, 2021.