Did Kendra Hatcher’s iPhone Play A Part In Her Murder?


Kendra Hatcher, a children’s dentist from Dallas, Texas, was shot and killed on September 3. She was just 35 years old. It was announced late last week that a suspect had been arrested, but some new information has since been uncovered, and makes the situation even more complicated.

Crystal Cortes, who is charged with being the driver of a Jeep used to flee the scene of the crime, was the police’s first arrest. She is 23 years old and claims, according to the police, that she was paid $500 to help her male accomplice make a quick getaway, though she says that the man was only supposed to rob Kendra Hatcher, not kill her. Cortes has confirmed that the perpetrator is male, but hasn’t yet revealed any other information about him.

Cortes has revealed information about someone else, though: a 33-year-old woman who hasn’t been publicly identified yet. The woman is a dental hygienist, so she works in the same field that Hatcher did; however, that isn’t her only tie to the late dentist. When Kendra Hatcher died she was dating someone, and this new suspect just so happens to be the ex-girlfriend of Hatcher’s beau.

This woman reportedly dated Hatcher’s boyfriend for about two years, and the relationship ended earlier in 2015. Crystal Cortes says that the ex-girlfriend was a part of the plot to rob Hatcher, and that the ex-girlfriend was supposedly using some type of software or app to track Hatcher’s iPhone for days leading up to her death.

Though she hasn’t been charged with anything yet, the police have searched the ex-girlfriend’s apartment and have confiscated her computer, hoping to obtain some more clues from there. Another eerie little detail from this crime is that the ex-girlfriend’s apartment is located less than two miles from the scene where Kendra Hatcher was killed.

With the popularity and wide use of iPhones these days, it is scary to think that there are malicious ways our own devices can be used to hurt us. A relative of Hatcher told Fox News that she doesn’t believe the original plan was just to rob Kendra; she doesn’t see any reason why the robber would need to take Kendra’s life in order to get what he wanted from her. Either way, the use of the phone surely would have helped the perpetrators to know where Hatcher would be and how they could get her alone to carry out their crime.

[Image courtesy of Dallas Morning News]

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