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Friends say the 19-year-old woman is a 2002 graduate of Eagle Valley
Senior High School, a former cheerleader and a talented piano player
who sang in the choir.

She and Lindsey McKinney traveled to Austin, Texas, in November to try
out for the "American Idol" TV talent show. McKinney said they slept
outside for 12 hours to get an audition.

Neither made it to the second round, but McKinney said she felt worse
for her friend than for herself, because she did a beautiful rendition
of the country song "F****ve" by Rebecca Lynn Howard.

McKinney said the two later had a falling out after the woman took the
side of McKinney's former boyfriend.

"She craves attention like no other. This is the bad kind of attention
that she's going to get," McKinney said.