Murder of Kacie Woody

On December 3, 2012, 10 years from the day of Kacie's abduction, her friends and family held a service for her at Greenbrier High School.

In spring 2003, Rick granted federal and state authorities permission to share Kacie's story in an Internet safety and law enforcement training program by the FBI called "Innocent Images". That June, the FBI released patches depicting a teddy bear sitting next to a computer, with its screen reading "KACIE WOODY 1989-2002" for the program's task force to wear.

In 2002, Kacie lived in Holland, Arkansas, with Rick, Tim, and Tim's friend Eric Betts. Her maternal aunt, Teresa Paul, lived next door. Paul's daughter and Kacie's cousin Jonna had died in a car accident, like Kristie, in 1994, at the age of 17. Kacie was a student at Greenbrier Middle School, and a member of the band, choir, and gifted and talented programs.

Kacie felt bad about Dave's aunt, and told her family and friends about him and the situation. Her friends Sam and Jessica also befriended Dave, and added him to their Yahoo buddy lists. At the same time, Sam in particular was fearful over Kacie's naivety, and warned her about becoming close to and falling in love with people that she hadn't met in person. Since Kacie's father, Rick, worked long-hour swing shifts as a police officer with the Greenbrier Police Department, he often wasn't home to monitor her Internet activity. Although, he stated during his Web of Lies interview, that at the time, he was aware she was talking to boys online. However, he wasn't very afraid, as long as he knew that she was at home, and the boys were elsewhere. Around the summer of 2002, when Kacie told him that Dave was turning 18, Rick told her that he was too old for her, and to stop talking to him. Although Kacie told Dave about this, she disobeyed Rick, and began talking to Dave over the phone, despite the long-distance call issue.

One night, likely in the autumn of 2002, Dave called Kacie while Jessica was spending the night at Kacie's house. During this, the girls heard strange sounds around the outside of the house, and a floorboard squeak in the kitchen, as if an intruder was on the property. The girls rushed into Kacie's bedroom and blocked the door with a dresser. Kacie told Dave that she was afraid someone was in the house; he told her that nobody was in the house and not to worry, and then the noises stopped.

At some point, Kacie met another boy in a chat room, Tazz2999. He claimed to be a 14-year-old named Scott from Alpharetta, Georgia, who loved football and wrestling. The photo on his profile was of a young teen boy in a football uniform. Kacie and Scott began dating on October 3, 2002. When Dave learned about the relationship, he wanted to remain friends with Kacie, but he began talking about his aunt and her worsening condition more.

On the morning of Tuesday, December 3, 2002, Sam noticed that Kacie had the photo from Scott's profile in her locker. She told her that he was hot, which Kacie misheard as "fat". Kacie became angry, and the two began arguing. When Sam asked Kacie how she got the photo, she told her that Scott had mailed it to her. Alarmed over the fact that this meant Kacie had given Scott her address, Sam warned her again about giving her address to people that she had never met in person, and told her that Scott "could be an 80-year-old rapist and that the photo could be of his grandson". Kacie did not take this warning seriously, and without her knowledge, Sam told the school counselor, Diana Kellar, about how Kacie was giving out her phone number to strangers online. Kellar later called Kacie into her office, where she warned her about the dangers of the Internet and told her not to meet any online friends in person without a parent present. Kacie responded that she only gave her phone number to people her father approved, which Sam disbelieved. Kellar then called Sam to the office and left her and Kacie alone to talk, and the girls reconciled. When classes dismissed, Kacie asked Sam if she could spend the night at her house. The latter declined, because her mother likely wouldn't have allowed a sleepover on a school night, and Kacie would have needed a written note from her father in order to be allowed to be dropped off at Sam's house. Kacie then asked Jessica, and then another friend, being turned down by both as well. She was not upset about the refusals, and told her friends goodbye before boarding the school bus. Her friends found it unusual that Kacie asked about a sleepover on a school night.

Police also discovered that Fuller had already visited Arkansas twice before, both times in the fall of 2002. The first time, he'd flown into Clinton National Airport on October 11, rented a car from Adam's Field, and checked into a Motel 6 in Conway. It is believed that he spied on Kacie and her home during this trip, although it is not certain.

The Woody home was in a rural, heavily wooded area, and due to many outgoing calls being long-distance, Rick allowed Kacie to use instant messaging on the computer to keep in touch with her friends. She registered on Yahoo! Messenger with either the username modelbehavior63 or modelbehavior36 (accounts vary). Kacie eventually started using chat rooms to meet new friends, and on either New Year's Eve 2001 (according to Web of Lies), or in the summer of 2002 (according to the written documentary Caught in the Web), she befriended "jazzman_df", who claimed to be a 17-year-old boy named David "Dave" Fagen, in a Yahoo! Christian teen chat room. The photo on jazzman_df's profile was of a "surfer dude"-type attractive young man; he claimed to love surfing and the beach, and the two bonded quickly and began to chat often. Kacie eventually told Dave about the loss of her mother, and he told her that his aunt, who also happened to live in Arkansas, was recently in a car accident and now comatose, and wasn't expected to live much longer.

After Fuller's death, FBI got a warrant to search his apartment, and discovered a framed collage of photos of Kacie near his computer, and paper with her and her friends' names, phone numbers, and addresses written down. Stored on the computer was a poem Kacie had written about her mother's death, and photos of Kacie and her friends. The FBI also learned that under Fuller's Dave Fagen persona, he had attempted to groom at least three other girls around Kacie's age, beginning in the winter of 2000, although none of these attempts led to offline encounters. He had offered to buy a Michigan girl a plane ticket to California, which she refused, and in March 2002, mailed a Dallas girl flowers, although she told detectives that she'd never given him her address.

On June 19, 1997, when Kacie was 7 years old, her mother Kristie was killed in a car accident, while the family was on their way home from Tim's baseball game. The car collided with a horse that had run into the road, which shattered the windshield and hit Kristie, who was sitting in the passenger seat. Everyone else in the vehicle survived, although Rick, who was driving, suffered broken ribs.

The family moved to La Mesa around 1997, and Fuller left the Navy two years later. As the marriage went on, and Fuller and Krens began social drinking less, Fuller developed anger problems and mood swings. He also eventually began spending long hours online, and taking nighttime walks around the neighborhood while talking on the phone. In June 2002, Krens obtained paperwork from a divorce workshop while Fuller took the children to visit his parents. When he returned, he was very angry to learn this.

Investigators learned from Kacie's friends that Dave had told her he was en route to Arkansas from California, at the time she disappeared. They launched a search around the local area for clues about him, and at a Conway Motel 6, they discovered a 1993 Buick Regal with a California license plate. Detectives learned that it belonged to a man named David Fuller, who had checked in December 2 and booked his stay for a week, requested no maid service, and had complained to the staff about not being able to connect to the Internet from his room, which he had become very angry over. When the detectives searched his room, they found Fuller's packed suitcase, laptop, camouflage clothing, rubber gloves, and that the bed hadn't been slept in.

Kacie Rene Woody (October 17, 1989 – December 4, 2002) was an American teenager from Holland, Arkansas, who was catfished, abducted, and murdered by 47-year-old David Leslie Fuller, from La Mesa, California, whom she met in a Yahoo Christian chat room for teens. Fuller had given his name as Dave Fagen, claimed to be a 17-year-old living in San Diego, and used a photo of a younger male on his profile. Fuller traveled to Arkansas, and abducted Kacie from her home on the night of December 3, 2002. The next day, her body was found in the rear of a minivan inside a storage unit in Conway, along with the body of Fuller. After he had shot her, he also shot himself, as law enforcement closed in on the unit. Kacie's case has been featured on the Investigation Discovery documentary shows Web of Lies and Man with a Van, and the podcast Crime Junkie. It is possibly the first well-documented case of a pedophile using the Internet to groom, abduct, and murder a victim.

Kacie was born on October 17, 1989, at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Rick and Kristie Woody. She had two brothers, Austin and Tim. She suffered from meconium aspiration syndrome, and spent the first weeks of her life in the NICU. After returning to the hospital a few more times in early infancy, Kacie didn't have any more lung problems.

Fuller became a Navy Seabee in 1989, before the couple moved to Gulfport, Mississippi, in which state they had a son. They later moved to Maryland, where they had a daughter, and then to San Diego. The children were 11 and 7 years old at the time of Fuller's death.

At age 19, he married an unidentified girl, and moved with her to Moab, although they ended their marriage shortly after. He met his future wife Sally Krens in the early 1980s, while he played bass guitar at a local bar. They married on May 21, 1983, and moved to Salt Lake City. Fuller would remain married to Krens until the time of his death.

David Leslie Fuller (January 18, 1955 – December 4, 2002) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah; the fourth and youngest child of Edward "Ned" and June Fuller. His parents were devout Mormons.