Brittni was beaten to death, set on fire, and then buried outside Albuquerque
UPDATE: In 2006, Ryan Vigil burned down the house of another girl who refused to date him. See update after the jump...
Brittni Carlini, a 20-year-old college student from Albuquerque, New Mexico, was excited about a snowboarding trip she had planned for last weekend. So she went to the home of her friend Ryan Vigil to retrieve a snowboard. That's when she disappeared.
Her parents reported her missing the next day. The trail quickly led to Vigil, 19. He admitted that they -- along with another friend, Christopher Midyette, also 19 -- got into an argument over the trip. As Brittni was leaving, Vigil says Midyette smashed her in the head with a baseball bat. The pair then took her to a remote area, dug a grave, doused her with gas and set her on fire, then buried her...
Police still aren't sure why they got into such a violent argument over a snowboarding trip, or why Midyette would decide to beat her over something so trivial. Information is still incoming, but it looks as if Vigil has already confessed. Officers say he told them where to find her body.
Detectives think he may have been Brittni's former coworker of perhaps her boyfriend, but they're not sure. And while this is purely speculation, Brittni may have been killed over drugs. On her MySpace page, she goes by the link "Blondstoner420." That could mean she's nothing more than innocent pothead. But it also may indicate she threatened to reveal something about Vigil and Midyette during the argument.
"Ryan had disclosed that he had an issue with her and that Chris was protecting him and he had his back and that is why he struck Brittni," police spokeswoman Nadine Hamby told KRQE-TV.
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At 16, Vigil dug a grave in his backyard for a girl who wouldn't date him
UPDATE: It appears Ryan Vigil is one creepy little bastard. In 2006, he burned down the house of a girl who wouldn't date him.
According to Loni Petry, the girl's mother, Vigil had a crush on her daughter, but she wasn't into douchebags who still rock Counting Crows hairdos. Police say he dug a grave in his backyard intended for the girl. Then he set fire to her house, killing their dog and cat inside. Petry said he later "smirked" about the arson.
Vigil did two years in juvie before being released last year, but that seems an awful short sentence for a kid digging graves and burning down a family's home. Petry knew she'd hear from the little creep again. "There's no way a kid, that kid, is going to be rehabilitated, digging a hole for us, killing our animals, and burning down the house, there's no way," she told KRQE-TV.