SAVANNAH, Ga. – Authorities found the body of an Army soldier’s wife Wednesday and arrested a Liberty County jailer in connection with her death four days after she went missing from her home in southeastern Georgia.
The discovery of 42-year-old Lori Arrowood’s body in some woods near a rural highway ended days of searching by the woman’s family and friends from nearby Fort Stewart, where her husband’s unit left for a tour in Iraq a few months ago.
Authorities would not say how Arrowood was killed or why. But they arrested Kenneth Lumpkin, a corrections officer for the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department, and planned to charge him with murder, said Micah Ward, special agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Ward said interviews with people close to Arrowood pointed authorities to Lumpkin as a potential suspect. He characterized their relationship as “acquaintances” and said nothing indicated they had a romantic relationship.
Arrowood’s husband, Sgt. Nathon Arrowood, was serving in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Brigade when she went missing.