The following is a partial exchange of I-Mail over AOL accounts between Byron Case and Peige Turner, discussing Anastasia's murder. In it, Case insists that he is NOT a suspect (despite later admissions to the contrary²), and further insists that the "real killer was some psychopathic freak, not . . . someone she hung out with," and why the police will never find the killer.

BC -  I was never a suspect, I was questioned .. just like Kelly
PT -  From what I heard you were.
BC -  We were both there at the same time.
BC -  You heard wrong, they never had a suspect, just like Justin isn't a suspect. 
      He was only wanted for questioning, then he turned up dead too.
PT -  they had many suspects ... Justin was a suspect. I'm just going by what I heard, 
      from Kilgore ... he even questioned me and my mom.
BC -  Did you drive out to Lee's Summit at seven in the morning to talk to cops?
PT -  no.
BC -  Well, I did.
PT -  Lee's Summit? Why?
BC -  Because that's who is handling the case>
PT -  Who?
BC -  The Jackson County Sherrifs department.
PT -  Kilgore, right?
BC -  yes. Then they stopped and talked about something else.
BC -  The real killer was some sociopathic freak, not a devil worshipper, or someone 
      she hung out with. People just die sometimes. Coincidences do happen sometimes.
BC -  It's not that hard to accept.
BC -  That's just it they probably never will. If no one has stepped forward by now, no 
      one will. I mean, if they can't link a murder to a suicide, and they can't get any 
      deviations from the events of the evening told by witnesses, how can the expect to 
      find the killer among the people she knew?
BC -  I mean unless she had some secret double life, there's no way
BC -  It's pointless to think it was me cause Kelly was there. It's stupid to think was 
      Justin because he wouldn't have known where to find her after taking me home. It's 
      stupid to think it was anyone else for the same reason
BC -  It's more of an annoyance to me. I hate the fact the cops called me 3 times asking 
      what she was wearing that night. It was just fucked up.
BC -  Well, at least we know she wasn't raped. That was one of my concerns for awhile.

It might also be of note that the Sheriff's Department had already noticed the discrepancy in descriptions of what clothing Anastasia was wearing the night of her murder, and they they had asked Case about it, to his "annoyance".