On May 1, 2005, Lindsey Marie Bonistall was killed in her apartment. James Cooke, who lived near the college student, came through a balcony opening early in the morning. He tied Lindsey up with an electrical cord, shoved a t-shirt in her mouth, raped her, knelt on her chest and strangled her to death with another t-shirt. According to a judge in the case, "It was a slow, painful, terrifying death." James doused the 20-year-old's body with bleach, then dragged it to a bathtub where he stacked kindling around it and lit it on fire. In an attempt to misdirect authorities, James used a permanent marker to write messages such as "KKK" and "White Power" around the apartment.