STRAWBERRY MILLS

Basic Info

• Apartment complex in WHITEHALL, Maryland
• 1 hour from ZION
• U-shaped building surrounding a parking lot
• 2 stories, motel style
• Each apartment has an exterior door
• Not a nice building; sketchy; very low-income energy

Residents

Apartment #12121

• HOUGHTON (Kerry Houghton) lived here
• Hoarder nightmare
• Glass cupboard full of precious moments dolls
• Pet cleaner and paper towels on floor
• Rotten food everywhere
• No cat present when investigated
• Litterbox has poop, but nothing fresh
• Cat food around
• Laptop computer on counter, logged in, no password
• Diaries from 2000 and 2001
• On verge of eviction
• Smells like ROTTING FLESH in spot where cat puked
• Neighbor CINDY maybe saw HOUGHTON 3 times in over a decade
• HOUGHTON never had visitors

Events

August 17-18, 2016 - Abduction of HOUGHTON

Security Footage (12:09AM 8/18)

• 3 figures come up the stairs (KILLERS - woman is ELLE GABLE)
• Two men walk up one staircase, woman walks up the other
• Two men stand adjacent to doorway while woman faces it
• They don't knock
• 12:12AM: HOUGHTON opens door carrying black trashbag
• Not super full
• Does not resemble PUDDING bags
• HOUGHTON wearing pajamas, no shoes
• Appears very surprised to see the woman
• Two men begin striking HOUGHTON on head with fists
• Drag HOUGHTON down stairs
• ELLE GABLE walks into apartment, remains for 6 seconds, leaves with keychain
• Perps leave door open; cat walks out
• Two of the KILLERS waiting next to 1997 Corolla
• ELLE GABLE opens trunk with HOUGHTON's keychain
• Two of the KILLERS load HOUGHTON into trunk
• 12:13AM: All drive off

2016 Investigation

• agents visit after discovering footage
• TOOMEY (Olivia Toomey, BMore Sun) approaches car asking questions
• agents enter apartment
• Evidence collected:
  • Laptop with email chains from 2001
  • Diaries with compulsive writing about Cornucopia house
  • Trashbag with cat vomit (weird smell, like rotting meat, makes people feel hungry)
  • Medications for PTSD, Schizoaffective disorder, Bipolar
• Neighbor CINDY interviewed
• Apartment manager does not recognize the three young perps