On March 15, 22-year-old Eden Montang of Ames, Iowa, made an Instagram post about red flags, a topic that, uncannily, is now being debated in Congress. "Stop treating red flags as challenges instead of warning signs," she wrote, framing it as "Unsolicited relationship advice."
Most likely, although she didn't name Johnathan Whitlatch, it was advice gleaned from her own relationship with the man who authorities say killed her June 2, less than three months later.
Montang, a graduate of Boone High School and a senior in Iowa State University's College of Human Sciences who worked with the Iowa National Guard, was shot to death outside Cornerstone Church in Ames. She and her 21-year-old friend Vivian Flores were going there for a service. Authorities named Whitlatch, who had been abusive toward her and with whom she had broken up, for both deaths as well as his own.
