2026年1月31日 / 美国东部时间上午7:30 / CBS新闻
当急救人员抵达卡特林·莱昂·蒙哥马利（Katlyn Lyon Montgomery）的公寓并发现她失去意识时，他们怀疑是药物过量。她的室友雅各布·皮尔斯（Jacob Piercy）在蒙哥马利的女儿米兰尼（Milani）提醒他母亲情况异常后拨打了911。
但正如《48小时》记者艾琳·莫里亚蒂（Erin Moriarty）报道的那样，这并非药物过量，调查人员很快发现卡特林是被谋杀的。《对卡特林的偷袭》（The Sneak Attack on Katlyn）将于1月31日（周六）晚上10点/9点中部时间在CBS播出，并可在派拉蒙+流媒体平台观看。
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2022年1月7日凌晨，当蒙哥马利抵达医院时，医务人员注意到她头部和颈部有正在形成的伤痕。弗吉尼亚州贝德福德县警长办公室的首席调查员罗比·伯内特（Robbie Burnette）专注于记录这些伤痕。在公寓里，调查员米歇尔·奥尔德里奇（Michelle Alderson）发现了可能造成蒙哥马利颈部伤痕的物品：一个缠绕在卡特林被子里的多端口充电器适配器。
发现的充电器缠在卡特林·莱昂·蒙哥马利的被子里。 贝德福德县警长办公室
调查人员将目光转向皮尔斯，因为他是公寓里唯一的其他成年人，且没有闯入的迹象。
“所以，我们一开始非常关注他……他当时是我们的头号嫌疑人，”伯内特告诉莫里亚蒂。
伯内特说，皮尔斯很配合，交出了他的手机，并同意接受多次采访。警方在他的说法得到证实后很快排除了他的嫌疑，调查人员称在911通话中可以听到他正在进行心肺复苏并试图挽救蒙哥马利的生命。
调查人员了解到，蒙哥马利最近与一名名叫特伦顿·弗莱（Trenton Frye）的男子分手。他们与卡特林的家人和朋友交谈，以了解更多关于这段关系的信息。她的哥哥杰克·莱昂（Jake Lyon）说，起初，弗莱似乎是个给人留下深刻印象的人。
“她有没有觉得他很成功，经营着几家企业……”莫里亚蒂问莱昂。
“当然。是的，我想每个人都有点这样的印象，”他回答道。
蒙哥马利的朋友汉娜·麦克道尔（Hannah McDowell）说，弗莱是卡特林的理想伴侣，她正在寻找一个可以与之同居、结婚生子的男人。“她想要一个支持她的人……并且能成为米兰尼的父亲，”麦克道尔说。
蒙哥马利和弗莱曾计划同居，弗莱还提出在他的家乡北卡罗来纳州为他们找一套公寓。
但在2022年9月初，他承认由于信用和收入来源不足，他无法找到符合条件的公寓。蒙哥马利的姨妈雪莉·考克斯（Sherry Cox）说：“卡特林从工作中给我打电话，她尖叫着……大哭着，她说‘他是个骗子，他对一切都撒谎，他没有工作……那不是他开的车，他开的是他妈妈的车……他住在自己的车里，他没有地方住。’”
和考克斯一样，莱昂也记得他的妹妹“意识到他有点像个骗子”，并断言弗莱“总是吹嘘自己有多成功，以及他经营或拥有的所有公司……但他实际上一无所有。”
和考克斯、莱昂一样，蒙哥马利的母亲克里斯托·塞尔（Crystal Sale）也知道卡特林已经彻底放弃了弗莱。
“所以她和他断绝了关系？”莫里亚蒂问道。
“是的，她和他断了联系，”塞尔回答。
有了动机，并且在收集到将他与蒙哥马利遇袭当晚在其公寓附近的手机数据后，弗莱被拘留。在等待审判期间，检察官必须拼凑出弗莱是如何潜入二楼公寓并在没有留下任何物证的情况下实施袭击的。
联邦检察官韦斯·南斯（Wes Nance）指出，在蒙哥马利公寓后面的杂草中发现了一张长椅。他推测，弗莱将这张长椅放在蒙哥马利阳台下方的4英尺高墙上，“以获得额外的1.5英尺左右的高度提升，这样他就能实际爬到二楼的露台上。”
南斯说，这个理论仍然很难证明。“仅仅因为你的案件可能存在弱点，并不意味着你要让凶手逍遥法外，”他告诉莫里亚蒂。
弗莱的律师约瑟夫·桑佐内（Joseph Sanzone）强调，没有证据表明弗莱进入过公寓，并强调弗莱不可能在不吵醒任何人的情况下（包括他们共同养的三只狗）爬上阳台闯入公寓。
“据我所知，只有汤姆·克鲁斯能做到那样，”桑佐内说。
南斯指出了审判中的一个关键细节，这一点指向了弗莱“像汤姆·克鲁斯一样的能力”，而这个细节来自弗莱在法庭上给自己起的名字：“忍者”。
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Virginia woman strangled days after dumping her deceptive boyfriend
January 31, 2026 / 7:30 AM EST / CBS News
When first responders arrived at Katlyn Lyon Montgomery’s apartment and discovered her unconscious, they suspected a drug overdose. Her roommate, Jacob Piercy, had called 911 after Montgomery’s daughter, Milani, alerted him that there was something wrong with her mother.
But as “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty reports, there was no overdose, and investigators soon uncovered Katlyn had been murdered, in “The Sneak Attack on Katlyn” airing Saturday, Jan. 31, at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
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When Montgomery arrived at the hospital in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2022, medical staff noticed injuries forming on her head and neck. Lead investigator Robbie Burnette with Virginia’s Bedford County Sheriff’s Office focused on documenting those injuries. At the apartment, investigator Michelle Alderson found what may have caused those injuries on Montgomery’s neck: a multiple charging cord adapter wrapped up in Katlyn’s comforter.
The charging cord found wrapped in Katlyn Lyon Montgomery’s comforter. Bedford County Sheriff’s Office
Investigators turned to Piercy, as he was the only other adult in the apartment and there was no sign of a break-in.
“So, we were looking at him … pretty heavy at first … he was our No. 1 suspect at that point,” Burnette told Moriarty.
Burnette said Piercy was cooperative, handing over his phone and agreeing to be interviewed several times. Police soon cleared Piercy after his story checked out, and investigators say he could be heard on the 911 call doing CPR and trying to save Montgomery.
Investigators learned Montgomery had recently broken up with a man named Trenton Frye. They spoke with Katlyn’s family and friends to find out more about the relationship. Her brother, Jake Lyon, said at first, Frye seemed like an impressive guy.
“And did she get the impression that he was pretty successful and ran a couple of businesses …” Moriarty asked Lyon.
“Definitely. Yeah, I think everybody was kind of under that impression,” he replied.
Montgomery’s friend, Hannah McDowell, says Frye was a good match for Katlyn, who was looking for a man that she could live with, marry and have children with. “She wanted someone that was supportive … and be a father to Milani, as well,” said McDowell.
Montgomery and Frye had plans to move in together, and Frye offered to find them an apartment in his native North Carolina.
But in early September 2022, he confessed he couldn’t find an apartment because he lacked the credit and source of income to qualify. Montgomery’s aunt, Sherry Cox, said, “Katlyn called me from work and she was screaming … bawling … she was like, ‘He’s a liar, he lied about everything, he doesn’t have a job … that’s not his car he’s driving, he’s driving his mom’s car … he’s living in his car, he doesn’t have a place.’”
Like Cox, Lyon remembered that his sister “realized that he was kind of a con artist” and asserted Frye “always talked a big game about how successful he was and all of his companies that he ran or owned … he didn’t have anything going for him.”
And like Cox and Lyon, Montgomery’s mother, Crystal Sale, knew that Katlyn was done with Frye.
“So she cut him off?” asked Moriarty.
“She did. She blocked him,” Frye replied.
Now with a motive, and after gathering cellphone data placing him near Montgomery’s apartment on the night of her attack, Frye was taken into custody. As he awaited trial, prosecutors had to piece together how Frye could have sneaked into the second-story apartment and carried out this attack without leaving any physical evidence behind.
Commonwealth attorney Wes Nance pointed to a bench that was found thrown into the weeds behind Montgomery’s apartment. He theorized that Frye placed that bench atop a 4-foot wall under Montgomery’s balcony to “give him that extra foot-and-a-half or so boost so he could actually pull up onto the second-floor deck.”
This theory was still difficult to prove, though, said Nance. “Just because you might have a weakness in your case, doesn’t mean you allow a killer to go free,” he told Moriarty.
Frye’s attorney, Joseph Sanzone, emphasizes that there is no evidence placing Frye inside the apartment, and also urged it would have been impossible for Frye to scale that balcony and break into the apartment without waking anyone up — including the three dogs that Montgomery and Piercy shared.
“Only Tom Cruise can do that as far as I know,” said Sanzone.
Nance points to one key detail during trial that points to Frye’s “Tom Cruise”-like ability, and it came from a name Frye gave himself on the stand: “ninja.”
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