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Runaway pet duck leads police to missing North Carolina woman’s body
Published: Apr. 25, 2022, 1:00 p.m.
A pet duck helped police located the body of a woman who has been missing since 2020.
ABC 13 News reports how Nellie Sullivan has first been reported missing from her home in Chandler, N.C., under what Sgt. Mark Walker of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office calls “suspicious circumstances.”
However, no progress had been made on the elderly woman’s case for years. That is, until a couple of weeks ago.
WPXI Channel 11 News continues to report how residents of a trailer in the area were chasing after their pet duck when it ducked beneath the mobile home. The two went in after it, coming upon Sullivan’s body in the process.
“If I could give that duck a medal, I would,” adds Walker.
Local 12 WKRC-TV states that the discovery of Sullivan’s body helped to strengthen the case against her granddaughter, Angela Wamsley, and Mark Barnes. The pair were already serving jail time with concealing another death—among other charges—in connection to the case, reportedly setting cops “on a wild goose chase” and causing them to dig at sites where they knew the body wasn’t actually buried.
“Since the beginning of this investigation we have sought to locate Ms. Sullivan’s remains, afford her the respect she deserved, and restore dignity to the life she once lived,” says Captain of the Criminal Investigation Division, Angie Tullis, according to the office’s Facebook page. “We are dedicated to utilizing all available science, technology, and investigative skills necessary for justice to be served in this case.”
Walker believes Wamsley and Barnes murdered Sullivan in order to collect her social security and retirement benefits, as well as to refill her prescriptions.
The official cause of death has yet to be released.