Investigators in South Georgia believe they may have found the body of an 85-year-old Ohio woman whom Chattanooga authorities searched for last week.
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Chattanooga Police Department Assistant Chief Tim Carroll shares the details of a male body found in Chattanooga last week. The body is that of an elderly Ohio man who disappeared along with his wife more than two weeks ago.Police Chief Brad Kunze in Bellefontaine, Ohio, said Wednesday the department is working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and FBI to confirm whether the remains belong to Gladis Russell.
She and her 84-year-old husband, Richard, went missing Feb. 16 from their Bellefontaine home. Richard Russell’s body was discovered on Lightfoot Mill Road in Chattanooga on Feb. 26.
A farmer near Vienna, Ga., was working in a field Wednesday when he found the body of a “slightly built” woman lying in a cotton field near a sandy road.
Ohio authorities believe the couple was killed at their rural home by Samuel K. Littleton II, an acquaintance who bought a home from them. They believe he put their bodies in the trunk of their car and took off.