North Carolina Sheriff: 2 people wanted after human remains found during search for missing woman

MACON, N.C. (FOX Carolina) – The Macon County Sheriff’s Workplace is on the lookout for two needed fugitives after human stays had been discovered throughout the seek for a lacking lady.

Deputies mentioned their investigation started when a member of the family filed a “lacking individual” report on Friday, Could 20 and informed them she had not heard from her sister in a number of weeks. Following this report, deputies started working with the member of the family and the Rabun County Sheriff’s Workplace to try to discover the lacking lady or the folks she frolicked round. By their preliminary investigation, deputies mentioned they narrowed down their search to 2 areas of Macon County.

“Based mostly on credible data, two areas had been thought of to be potential crime scenes and meticulous searches can be performed by our staff, mentioned Macon County Sheriff Robert Holland. “The primary crime scene was a location the place the lacking individual was final seen alive and the second is the place the lacking individual could at present be positioned.”

Friday evening, deputies secured each scenes and started looking with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations and the District Legal professional’s Workplace. In the course of the search, they found human stays at one of many areas.

On Monday, Could 23, Sheriff Holland mentioned costs had been filed in opposition to two suspects, Jessica Rita Smith and Dereck McCrackin, who’re thought of to be harmful. The pair are identified to spend time in Macon County, NC and Rabun County, GA. Hassle suspects are identified to remain within the South Tryphosa and Mulberry areas of Macon County.

In the course of the investigation, Christopher Shields was initially recognized as an individual of curiosity and later grew to become deputies’ prime suspect. Deputies from the Rabun County Sheriff’s Workplace positioned and detained Shields throughout a visitors cease as he went into Georgia. Macon County deputies then went to Rabun County and formally charged Shields with kidnapping. In accordance with deputies, extra costs shall be filed at an applicable time.

“Working with our District Legal professional, we’ve got made the choice to not launch the identify of the sufferer resulting from pending post-mortem and never till identification of the stays will be made. Investigators with the MCSO have been in communication with the household of the lacking individual as she is the one energetic lacking individual case in Macon County.

Sheriff Robert L. Holland

Anybody with data concerning this investigation is requested to contact Robbie Younce with the Prison Investigations Unit at (828) 349-2268. Individuals also can submit suggestions anonymously by calling the Crime-Stoppers hotline at (828)349-2600 or utilizing the Macon County Sheriff’s Workplace app.

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