Kevin Neal

Sexual Predator

At various times, police asked Neal to provide written statements with details of the activities in the home from the time Sue Neal left for work at 6:30 a.m. until he phoned 911. The declarations contained glaring inconsistencies. In the first statement, Neal said India was asleep on a couch, but awoke to kiss her mother goodbye. Cody was asleep in his bedroom and did not awaken, he claimed. In another written account, Neal said Cody woke up, talked to his mother and then went back to bed. Both statements indicated that the children were given breakfast at around 10:30 a.m. The children played inside until noon, when they went outside.

As family and friends gathered for a prayer service to petition for the children's safe return, investigators began to lean on Kevin Neal. But Neal proved to be a tough nut to crack and was adamant about not being responsible for the disappearances.

Less than three weeks after his stepchildren disappeared, Kevin Neal pleaded guilty to one count of sexual battery and one count of criminal confinement in a Marion County, Indiana, courthouse. He was sentenced to a term of three to 15 years in prison and ordered to register as a sexual predator.

When he began serving his sentence at the end of July, the children still had not been found. Eventually, Kevin Neal would use his custodial status as an alibi that he claimed would prove him incapable of killing his stepchildren.

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1. Messages from the Dead
2. 700 Years Later
3. The Children are Missing
4. Unhealthy Family Dynamic
5. Complex Relationships & Conflicts
6. Search for Children Called Off
7. Behind the Scenes
8. Neal's Criminal Past
9. Lies
10. Sexual Predator
11. Bodies in the Cemetery
12. A Ghastly Find
13. Physical Laws of Death
14. The Stages of Death
15. The Bureau of Criminal Identification
16. Working the Crime Scene
17. Manner of Death
18. Not Much to Work With
19. Cause of Death
20. More Forensic Clues
21. "We Are Not in a Rush"
22. No Smoking Gun
23. "Hurt Someone They Love"
24. Incriminating Statements
25. The Physical Evidence
26. Forensic Botany
27. Bug Collecting
28. Forensic Entomolgy
29. How Flies Tell Time
30. After the Blow Flies Flew Away
31. Enter the Cheese Skipper
32. Date of Death
33. The Secondary Screwworm in Court
34. Battle over Bug Evidence
35. Cheese Skippers for the Defense
36. Counterpoint
37. The Body Farmer
38. Dr. Bass for the Defense
39. "The Liver Bothers Me"
40. The Jury Decides
41. Bibliography