BUFFALO, Mo. (KY3) – The Dallas County sheriff says DNA assessments carried out on a physique discovered on the property of James Phelps affirm the loss of life of Cassidy Rainwater.
The Dallas County prosecutor on Wednesday filed new first-degree homicide costs towards James Phelps and Timothy Norton for Rainwater’s loss of life. The prosecutor additionally charged them with the abandonment of a corpse. They every confronted kidnapping costs in Rainwater’s disappearance.
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KY3 Information first broke the information of the kidnapping in mid-September. FBI investigators contacted detectives in Dallas County saying they obtained images from an nameless particular person exhibiting Rainwater in a cage. Investigators say a detective acknowledged Rainwater in {a partially} nude state. After looking Phelps’ telephone, officers found seven images of Rainwater.
Based on detectives, Rainwater had been staying with Phelps whereas she acquired on her ft. Investigators say Phelps claims she had left in the course of the evening on the finish of July and he had not seen her since then. Detectives searched the world for a number of days.
A choose had scheduled a courtroom look for Phelps on November 19.
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