EARLY, IA -
According to written statements, early on January 3rd 21-year-old Kirk Riley Levin showed up at Jessica Vega's apartment in Storm Lake asking for a ride back to Early, Iowa.
When the two got back to his mom's house at 2242 Ira Avenue, Vega says Levin told her he was going to kidnap her, tied her up, and put her back in the car.
Eventually Sheriff's Deputies caught up with Levin and Vega, she wasn't hurt.
Levin had just been released from prison on January 1st.
Earlier that day the Iowa Department of Corrections told Sac County Sheriff Ken McClure that while he was in prison, Kirk Levin had been found with a notebook. Inside were writings and drawings about the sexual assault and rape of a woman.
After arresting Levin on January 3rd, Sheriff McClure tried to get in touch with Levin's mom, 45-year-old Marilyn Schmitt.
Later that same day, Sheriff McClure found her body in a bedroom at her house.
She had been hit in the head, had a cut on her leg and there was a belt around her neck.
Later, when asked if he killed his mother, a Department of Criminal Investigations agent says Kirk Levin said something similar to "if she is dead, then I must have killed her."
Those same Sac County court documents that revealed this information are just the beginning of evidence in the case, investigators took dozens of items while executing search warrants, including blood samples.
Kirk Riley Levin's preliminary hearing is scheduled for next Friday, January 18th.
