# Missouri woman kept in box found murdered **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548 "2015-05-21T21:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/1 "2015-05-21T21:09:05Z")
[Story](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/21/us-usa-missouri-captive-idUSKBN0O625I20150521) I hadn’t heard of this case. I remember hearing about a woman who was kept in a box under a bed several years ago, and I thought this might be the same woman. But Colleen Stan was imprisoned between 1977 and 1984, and her kidnapper is still in prison. > [@](#): > > A Missouri woman who escaped captivity from a wooden box three weeks ago was found dead in a home on Thursday, along with her son, and police are searching for the man suspected both of locking her up and of murdering her. > > Officers found Sandra Kay Sutton, 46, and son Zachary Wade Sutton, 17, shot dead in a house in Clinton, Missouri, at about 4:20 a.m., according to a news release from the Clinton Police Department. ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/2 "2015-05-21T21:14:29Z")
Interesting. I’ll be in Clinton, MO next month. I’ll have to ask the locals about it. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/3 "2015-05-22T00:22:05Z")
I live about 20 minutes from Clinton. My neighbor texted me this morning to advise me to be on the lookout. I’d never heard about the box girl. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/4 "2015-05-22T03:26:27Z")
I don’t understand the story. The suspect, her boyfriend Horn, is a registered sex offender for several other incidents including kidnapping, and has served 10 years in Federal prison. If she escaped from the box three weeks ago, and he was charged for that… > [@](#): > > Horn later was charged with kidnapping, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon but has been at large ever since. How in the name of anything is he at large? This is the South, they aggressively lock up sex offenders and people they think might be sex offenders. Why was this one let go? Infuriating. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/5 "2015-05-22T04:12:34Z")
My understanding is that Horn fled between the time that Sutton escaped and the time police went to his home to investigate. I’m not sure Horn was ever in police custody. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/6 "2015-05-22T15:50:43Z")
They’ve been looking for Horn for about three weeks now, ever since she escaped from the house in Sedalia. He was never in custody after the original incident. Sedalia police had offered to keep her in a safe location but she opted to stay with relatives in Clinton instead. Horn was obviously keeping tabs on her while on the run and knew where to find her. I hope they nail that sick sonofabitch. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/7 "2015-05-22T16:01:46Z")
> [@JerrySTL](#): > > Interesting. I’ll be in Clinton, MO next month. I’ll have to ask the locals about it. Be careful which local you ask. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/8 "2015-05-24T12:55:30Z")
Aaand… they got him. [http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article21908043.html](http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article21908043.html) ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/9 "2015-05-24T14:24:59Z")
Good. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-woman-kept-in-box-found-murdered/720548/10 "2015-05-24T19:07:18Z")
I thought you couldn’t be “charged with” something unless you were arraigned, i.e., in custody. Am I wrong? Before they have you, you may be _wanted for_ a crime, but the article said “charged.”