Inside The Grisly Murder Of Mackenzie Cowell At The Hands Of Her Serial Killer-Obsessed Classmate

Inside The Grisly Murder Of Mackenzie Cowell At The Hands Of Her Serial Killer-Obsessed Classmate

In 2010, 17-year-old Mackenzie Cowell fell victim to a disturbed classmate named Christopher Scott Wilson who had a morbid fascination with murder and a tattoo of Hannibal Lecter on his arm.

"He wanted to be notorious like Hannibal Lecter... He always wanted to know what it was like to kill somebody, and what it would be like to cut them up and skin them."⁠

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Christopher Scott Wilson was a quiet, 29-year-old student at the Academy of Hair Design in Wenatchee, Washington in 2010. Meanwhile, he worked part-time at several local funeral homes — and steadily developed a disturbing obsession with death and serial killers. He idolized fictional murderers like Dexter and Hannibal Lecter, and even got a tattoo of Lecter on his arm. And when Wilson met a 17-year-old fellow student named Mackenzie Cowell, he targeted her to be the victim of his gruesome fantasies. ⁠

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When Cowell's mutilated body was found on February 13, 2010, authorities first probed people who were close to her as well as some local drug dealers. But then they received a letter about Wilson alleging that he had once choked another girl, as well as an anonymous call saying that Wilson had bragged about strangling a girl to death. Soon enough, police had the evidence they needed to arrest Wilson, and when he went on trial, he hired the infamous attorney who had represented none other than Ted Bundy.⁠

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Go inside the chilling murder of Mackenzie Cowell at the hands of Christopher Scott Wilson by clicking the link in our profile.⁠

Mackenzie Cowell was a 17-year-old cosmetology student in Wenatchee, Washington. On February 9, 2010, she left class for a short break, driving away in her car, but a fellow beauty school student was just behind her — with dark designs.

When Mackenzie Cowell turned up strangled and stabbed to death in the Columbia River four days later, police had few leads, until Christopher Wilson’s name came to their attention. The circumstantial evidence suggested Wilson was Cowell’s killer, and so did part of the physical evidence, but questions remained: Were others complicit in Mackenzie Cowell’s brutal murder?

Mackenzie Cowell Vanishes From Beauty School

⁠Mackenzie Nicole Cowell was born on April 1, 1992, and in 2010 was a senior at Wenatchee High School, splitting her time between both parents’ homes. Cowell was a dedicated dancer on the school dance team, and for a Wenatchee dance studio. The ambitious Cowell was gaining extra school credits in a cosmetology job training program at the Academy Of Hair Design in downtown Wenatchee.

At 3 p.m. on February 9, Cowell left her beauty school for a 15-minute break, asking if she had to sign out for such a short time according to CBS News. Cowell exited through a rear door, and was recorded on external security cameras walking across the parking lot, and entering her red car alone. These were the last images captured of Cowell alive.

Other than the one-word text to her boyfriend of, “Hey,” which received the same response at 3:42 p.m., any calls to Cowell’s phone afterward went straight to voicemail. As classes ended at 5 p.m. Cowell never returned to the beauty school.

Cowell’s father left a series of voicemails for his daughter around 5:40 p.m. and became increasingly worried when she did not return home that evening. Around 8 p.m.m a rancher reported an abandoned car near his driveway in Pitcher Canyon. It was Cowell’s, and police called the registered owner, Reid Cowell, who told the officer that not only was his car missing, but so was the driver – his daughter.

A single set of footprints in the snow led away from Cowell’s car, and soon a police helicopter and canine search were underway. The canine only detected Cowell’s scent within the car — however, three residents recalled seeing a thin man, with dark hair and a dark coat, walking away from the car down Pitcher Canyon Road between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m.

Mackenzie Cowell’s Remains Are Discovered

On February 13, four days after her disappearance, Mackenzie Cowell’s body was discovered in the Colombia River at the quiet resort community of Crescent Bar, some 20 miles east of Wenatchee.

The autopsy showed Mackenzie Cowell had died on February 9, between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. She had no drugs or alcohol in her system, had not been sexually assaulted, still wearing her beauty school uniform. Cowell had suffered blunt force trauma to the head and been strangled and stabbed per The Spokesman Review.

Disturbingly, a kitchen knife was found still embedded in Cowell’s shoulder, where her killer had attempted to hack off her arm.

A multiagency task force was formed with consultation from the FBI, as Cowell’s parents were informed of the shocking murder of their daughter. Investigators soon cleared the family, including the boyfriend of Cowell’s mother, with whom Cowell had some past tension. But with investigators interviewing hundreds of people and obtaining relevant DNA swabs, a new twist soon appeared in the case.

Reportedly a police informant, a woman named Liz Reid implicated two local drug dealers, claiming she had actually seen a “snuff film” of Cowell’s murder. The task force examined both men for weeks, but phone records and their presence at jobs on the afternoon of Cowell’s disappearance, cleared them both. Reid’s information ultimately proved invalid, and she withdrew her accusation — but still maintained that she had seen that snuff film.

Christopher Wilson, A Serial Killer-Obsessed Classmate

In August, another police informant, Theo Keyes, sent investigators a letter from prison indicating that they should look into his former friend, 29-year-old Christopher Wilson. Keyes, a bipolar petty criminal in jail for indecent exposure, wrote that Wilson attended the same beauty school as Mackenzie Cowell, and had a morbid fascination with death, having previously been fired from a funeral home for an unknown offense.

Keyes said that Wilson had once suddenly choked a female friend at a party, then released her as if nothing had happened.

Wilson dyed his hair black, wore gothic clothing and occasional eyeliner, and would’ve blended into Seattle perfectly — but not small-town Wenatchee, where he stuck out like a sore thumb. Wilson was obsessed with the popular serial killer TV show Dexter and even had a tattoo of Hannibal Lecter on his arm. Wilson’s friends always stressed that he wasn’t evil, just different, with some unusual interests. Opinions varied as to whether Cowell and Wilson knew each other, but Wilson denied it.

Security footage captured Wilson leaving the beauty school within 72 seconds of Cowell that afternoon, and his whereabouts for the rest of the day were unknown. Phone records showed Wilson in regular contact with his ex-girlfriend that afternoon, and she in turn was in contact with her current boyfriend, who lived three miles from Crescent Bar.

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