SKYLAR KAUFFMAN: TROUTMAN LOCKED HER IN HIS APT.

KILLER?

TERRIFIED and surrounded by pictures of naked women Skylar Kauffman and her friend realized her alleged murderer, James Troutman had locked them in his apartment after offering to: "show them his bird."
But three weeks to the day before her death, the nine-year-old and her pal were able to escape from his Philadelphia, PA apartment where cops later found a pool of her blood and a single shoe of hers. The girls went willingly, but when they saw the pictures, when Troutman offered to show them his "bird," and when they
realized that he had locked the apartment door behind them, they ran away and told their parents, according to court documents.
Cops said that they responded and interviewed Troutman, but they never charged the 24-year-old with any crime, although they remained tight lipped as to what was actually said.
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman told The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday that no crime occurred that rose to the level of filing charges and that Troutman had no criminal history that would have led police to suspect that he was capable of something more sinister.
She added: "It's one of those situations where everyone did what they were supposed to do, and, unfortunately, we couldn't prevent the death of a child."
Sadly less a month later Skylar would be dead.
In a confession Troutman reportedly said he had taken Skyler in the basement, choked her, hit her head on the floor and then "got rid of her" in the Dumpster.
He told police he had to kill her "because once I took her down the basement, I knew she could get me in trouble," according to court documents.
Astonishingly he then returned to his apartment and ate dinner with his fiance, apparently without a care in the world.   
An autopsy performed yesterday determined that Skyler had died of asphyxiation and blunt-force trauma and that she had "significant genital injuries."
He has been charged with her murder.