Posted on 04/25/2022 4:12:41 PM PDT by algore
A North Carolina couple who sent police on a 'wild goose chase' after being arrested in the disappearance of the women's grandmother had their fowl scheme unravel when a pet duck led cops to her decaying body.
Angela Wamsley, 46, and her boyfriend Mark Barnes 50, were arrested in December 2020 on a slew of charges - including fraud, animal cruelty, and drug and weapons possession - following the disappearance of Nellie Sullivan, Wamsley's grandmother.
Sullivan, who suffered from ailing health including dementia, had vanished years before she was determined to be missing in 2020, according to a neighbor.
Cops finally cracked the cold case with more than a bit of luck this month at the couple's former property at 11 Beady Eyed Lane in Candler, 10 miles west of Asheville.
Buncombe County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Mark Walker said they learned about a body when the current residents at the trailer where Wamsley and Barnes once lived were chasing after their pet duck.
'Apparently, the duck ran underneath the trailer ... and as they were chasing after their pet duck, they ran across the container that Nellie Sullivan was located in,' Walker told WLOS.
'If I could give that duck a medal, I would,' Walker quipped.
An autopsy confirmed the body was Sullivan's, Walker said.
Wamsley and Barnes had continued to collect Sullivan's Social Security and retirement benefits while also continuing to fill her prescriptions after she was killed, Walker said.
The couple, who are in prison for previous drug-related convictions, were charged with first-degree murder, according to Buncombe County Sheriff's Office.
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“Beady Eyed Lane” is a clue all by itself.
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They shoulda roasted that duck. /jk
For how long?
Most drugs you have to have a new prescription every year and you have to go see a doctor to get it.
Generally bloodwork is involved.
For the good stuff, drugs with a resale value, it is often one month and a blood draw every three months.
My blood pressure meds are renewed every 3 months and I talk to the doc only over the phone with a home B P machine
Nothing like a good “Wise Quack” to expose a fraud.
Most places insist on it.
There’s a headline you don’t see every day
” after pet duck led cops to body buried under trailer”
Not only click-bait but false news ...
“There’s a headline you don’t see every day”
Fake news.
A dithpicable crime.
My guess is that Angela Wamsley, and her boyfriend Mark Barnes had a quack up.
Well, isn’t it obvious they didn’t have all their ducks in a row?
5.56mm
I smell meth.
The cops must of used “DuckDuckGo” to search.
During COVID a lot of doctors were probably lenient on this stuff.
Too funny! Good for that duck!
“M R ducks”
“M R not.”
“O S A R. C M wangs? C M B D I’s?”
“L I B! M R ducks!
How did I know a trailer would be involved?
How did I know a trailer would be involved?
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