Kathy's sister, Sherry Valentine did saw the film. The Fultons have taken notice of the film, with a recent newspaper clipping by the Fulton family wishing Kathy a happy birthday and thanking their father for pretty much inspiring an Oscar-nominated hit. The film went on to win accolades, with Frances McDormand winning Best Actress Oscar for her excellent portrayal as Mildred Hayes. The story was about Mildred Hayes, the mother of murdered teenager Angela Hayes, who painted three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police for lack of investigation towards Angela's daughter. Years later, after finishing In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh, still remembering the Fulntons' billboards, went on to make Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. They were seared into his brain for many years. One day, an English-Irish playwright named Martin McDonagh went on a bus trip across the southern United States and he saw the same three small billboards. They were put along westbound Interstate 10 outside Beaumont. Years pass, and James Fulton started a billboard campaign calling out Steven Page as the suspect and the police as corrupt. Both cases so far have ended in mistrials. Since Kathy's death, her family has sued Steve for wrongful death. He claims that a member of a prominent Italian family in Beaumont, called the "Beaumont Mafia", was responsible for her death, and that the police are framing him. He claims that he has received threats on the phone, stating that the same thing that happened to her would also happen to him. Steve claims that he was not responsible for Kathy's death he believes that everyone is assuming that he is responsible because he is the estranged husband. After realizing he had killed her, he, feeling remorse, cleaned her up, redressed her, and placed her body in her car. When she refused, he attacked, raped, and strangled her. They believe that when she came home, he demanded to have sex with her. Sherry and her father, James Fulton, believe that Steve became furious after finding the phone numbers and discovering that Kathy lied about what she was doing that night. One was Charlotte's and the other was the motel's.
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Sherry learned from Steve's sister-in-law that he had called two different phone numbers the night of Kathy's death. Sherry does not believe that this occurred the way Steve said it did she does not believe Kathy would have had sex with him right before going out to do so with another man. When questioned, he admitted that he and Kathy did have sex that night, but that it occurred before she went out. Authorities discovered that Steve had had a vasectomy a few months earlier. Her boyfriend had not had one, meaning that she had sex with another person that night. The autopsy report also noted that whoever Kathy had sex with that night had had a vasectomy. Her boyfriend acknowledged that they had sex that night he later passed a polygraph examination. Instead, she had spent the night with a boyfriend in a motel in Beaumont, which is about ten minutes from Vidor. Authorities learned that she had, in fact, not gone to meet Charlotte that night. The autopsy also showed that Kathy had engaged in sexual intercourse shortly before her death. He moved out shortly before her death, but he claimed that they remained friendly. She claims that Kathy was planning to divorce Steve soon.
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She says that the marriage was beyond repair and that Kathy was starting to move on with her life. Her sister, Sherry, however, disagrees with his claims.
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Her ex-husband, Steven Page claimed that around that time, she felt that she no longer wanted to be married to him and that both Kathy and Steve wanted to work things out.
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It was obvious to police that her death was not a result of a car accident. Finally, even though she wasn't wearing her seat belt, she remained in a reclined position in her seat. Her feet were pushed back to the seat rather than stretched towards the pedals. Soft drinks in the front seat hadn't even been spilled. She had no obvious wounds or injuries on her body. As investigators looked more closely, however, they found evidence to suggest that her death was no accident.
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You can read the full wiki article hereĮarly in the morning on May 14, 1991, thirty-four-year-old Kathy Page was found dead in her car stuck in a ditch in an apparent car accident near Vidor, Texas. The following is a writeup provided by The Unsolved Mysteries Wiki.