Kirsten Wolcott

Kirsten Elisabeth Wolcott (December 5, 1988 - November 18, 2009) was an American Seventh-day Adventist missionary who was murdered in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Wolcott was a native of Tappahannock, Virginia. She was a student in education at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. In 2009, after two years of study, Wolcott took a year break to volunteer as a missionary teacher at an Adventist school in Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia.
On the morning of November 18, 2009, Wolcott went for a jog alone prior to classes beginning, but she did not return. She was found naked and dead in tall grass next to a highway with more than 10 stab wounds on her body.
Justin Ayin, a native of Yap, was arrested and charged with the murder. Ayin later signed a written confession, in which he said he encountered Wolcott shortly after leaving a party, and that he was drunk and high on drugs at the time of the killing. As of 2011, Ayin had not yet been tried or sentenced by a court.
Southern Adventist University established an annual 5-kilometre run in Wolcott's memory. The Yap Legislature erected a marker at the site of the attack and a portion of the nearby highway was named in Wolcott's memory.

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