Christopher Wilson was obsessed with the fictional character Hannibal Lecter and corpses. Â This fascination might have encouraged him to try and re-create a death scene when he killed high school student, Mackenzie Cowell. Read the details after the jump!
Steph Bassanini
Jury selection is expected to begin on Monday in the murder trial of a Washington beauty school student who is accused of strangling and stabbing to death his 17-year-old classmate.
Prosecutors said Christopher Scott Wilson, 31, had a fascination with death and corpses when he killed high school senior Mackenzie Cowell in February of 2010, comparing him to a serial-killing character from the television shows Dexter.
Wilson also has an arm tattoo of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional serial killer from Oscar-winning movie Silence of the Lambs.
Wilson was ultimately charged with first-degree murder in a case that shocked the small agricultural city of Wenatchee, the self-described ‘Apple Capital of the World’.
The 31-year-old and his alleged victim could hardly be more different. Unlike her grim older classmate, Cowell was a popular girl and a member of her school dance team known as the Apple-Ettes.
Reid Cowell, Mackenzie’s father, recalled a driven girl with an ‘unreal schedule,’ juggling high school in the morning, beauty school in the afternoon and dance classes and dance team practice.
‘She would never have gone with anyone she didn’t trust,’ Mr Cowell said. ‘The evidence tells me the chances are slim it wasn’t him.’
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