Noah Paston

Paston, Noah

Mentioned in Devoted in Death (mid-January, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Dead
• Age at TOD: 19
• Address: Cutter’s Bend, MO
• Relationships: Unnamed parents; unnamed ex-girlfriend
• Occupation: Helped out at a garden center his parents owned

Homicide Information

• Darryl Roy James and Ella-Loo Parsens tortured and killed him
  • Went missing September, 2060 on his way home from the ballfield one balmy evening.
  • His remains were found nearly a week later, dumped in a wooded area over the Tennessee border; two kids stumbled across the remains.
  • Decomp and animals had gotten to him by then.
  • Broken wrist, broken fingers, gashes, punctures, no sexual abuse
  • Evidence of binding on what was left of his wrists and ankles
  • Blunt force trauma, back of the head, some burn marks

Interesting Facts

• His body was found ten days before the first confirmed kill (Nashville, TN), and in between another missing person points to a murder: Ava Enderson, who went missing about the same time Noah’s remains turned up.
• He’d recently broken up with his girlfriend and had a pushing match with the guy she dumped him for, but that guy was alibied tight and didn’t read like a killer.
• Did okay in school but opted for an online course instead of going to college so he could stay home and help with the family business, a garden center.
• Coached Little League along with his father.
• People liked him.
• Eve didn’t think it was their first kill because it seemed more like a crime of opportunity - he had lent his small truck to a friend and then stayed late to work one-on-one with a kid before walking the kid home. He told the kid he was going to take a shortcut home, but never made it. Eve thought the first kill had a purpose, that the person had something they wanted.