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She was a child when her mom was murdered before her eyes. She discusses it in first media interview
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RIGBY – Miquel Peck couldn’t shake the bad feeling she was having.
It was Jan. 31, 2004 and the 7-year-old girl, who lived with her dad in Salt Lake City, was in Rigby visiting her mom, Karen Cummings. Miquel’s parents had recently been divorced and she was spending the weekend with her mom. It had been a while since she’d seen her and she was excited.
Miquel had arrived late with her mom and grandma. Cummings was insistent about going to Gregg Whitmore’s (her fiancee) house, despite Miquel’s desire to sleep at grandma’s and visit Whitmore the next day.
“For whatever reason, I had a horrible feeling,” Miquel, who is now 28, recalls in an interview with EastIdahoNews.com. “I was like, ‘No, let’s go stay with grandma. It’s late. Let’s get home.’ My mom wanted to go to Gregg’s. I wanted to be with my mom so I went with her. My grandma tried to talk her out of it, but my mom insisted.”
Twenty years later, Miquel now wishes her instincts had been wrong. In just a few hours, her mom, along with Whitmore, would be murdered. Miquel saw the killer and made the initial 911 call to first responders.
Miquel held her mom tightly as they watched a movie together. She gave her mom a hug before going to bed around 1 a.m., not knowing she was embracing her for the last time.
WATCH OUR INTERVIEW WITH MIQUEL IN THE VIDEO ABOVE.
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