A letter that was allegedly written by Sean Phillips, 22, the Michigan man that is serving 10-15 years for abducting his 4-month-old daughter, Katherine Phillips, also known as Baby Kate, states that he accidentally killed her.
The letter, which is five-pages long, was written two months ago and was obtained by WOOD TV on Sept. 11.
Just yesterday, Ariel Courtland, Kate’s mother filed paperwork to marry Sean. She states she does not love him, but is trying to gain more information from him as to what happened to Kate.
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“I need to have answers,” Courtland told WOOD TV. ”
Courtland is not allowed to visit Phillips because she is considered a victim in the case. Her attempt to appeal the decision was unsuccessful, so now she is planning on marrying him, reports WOOD TV.
“A marriage license is a paper…It’s not staying that I’m gonna spend the rest of my life with him,” Courtland said.
The letter that is unsigned, but believe to be written by Sean was written on jail-issued paper and was in an envelope postmarked July 16 with Sean Phillips’ name and prison ID number on the envelope.
In the letter, which has no greeting as to who it was written to, begins with “This is what you want, OK. I always felt that I needed to do this in person.”
Sean continues and writes about the day that Baby Kate went missing:
“When I brought you back I didn’t park, so that you would just get out and not pull any more shit to try to keep me there longer. Even when you sat there with the door open and foot out and I had to interrupt you three times with ‘I don’t care’ before you got out. You said something like ‘whatever f*ck you’ and ‘I’m gonna ruin your life’ then walked around and spent a minute getting Kate out.
I was pretending to be busy why my phone or something so you would hopefully just leave me alone. Heard the door shut, saw you walk off. Your hands in front of you not on your sides. Like you were holding Kate. I drove away. A blonde lady by the office and I looked at each other as I passed.”
Sean says he went to a Wendy’s to eat and to try to make up his mind and went inside because the phone would not stop ringing. When he came back to the car, the phone was still ringing and Sean said it was driving him crazy and when he moved the seat back to get the phone “it was blocked by that car seat and I was pissed that you left it in there just to try to make me bring it back later…I pulled but it was jammed between the seats…I grabbed it (car seat) at the top and ripped it out as hard as I could. She [Kate] was thrown from it…I never even tried to help her. Never even thought to. Just sat there. Holding her. I don’t think anything could have been done. Still I used to hate myself for not trying.”
Sean said he held Kate for a long time, but he really didn’t have any conception of time, then he “set” Kate “in a peaceful place.”
Back in July, 2011, Sean told Ariel that Kate was alive.
The letter then changes tone as Sean begins to blame the police, and then Ariel for making matters worse by either hounding him or provoking him. He tells Ariel, “Couldn’t believe you wanted to do that test before finishing the adoption that day, just to make me pay.”
At the end of the letter Sean says that “things spouses tell each other in confidence cant [sic] be made to testify.”
According to The Ludington Daily News, on July 11, 2011 a guard found a note in Sean’s pocket that read:
“I gave her to a guy, along with a list of families that are adopting (addresses).
“He was to take her to one and they would report that the baby was left on their doorstep but that they wish to keep it.
“Go on ParentProfiles.com and get contact info for families in the region. Hopefully the profile is still up.
“If not, then I can find contact info I have when I get out.”
