New information in a Marion County missing person investigation indicates the subject of the probe, Stacy Annette Crawford, vanished almost three weeks earlier than originally thought.
Also new in the investigation is a theft arrest involving a person of interest and a $7,000 reward the family has offered for information on the location of Crawford’s body, according to Sheriff Ronnie “Bo” Burnett.
Crawford, 44, of Whitwell, Tennessee, in northeast Marion County, is now believed to have gone missing July 21 somewhere in or around her hometown, Burnett said Monday in a phone interview. New information from Crawford’s phone records led to the date change, according to detectives.
Since the investigation began, authorities have conducted ground searches using a cadaver K-9 without success and issued search warrants that produced electronic and physical evidence investigators believe will be valuable to the case, according to Burnett. Evidence from those searches was submitted to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab in Nashville for analysis.
Meanwhile, detectives arrested Ronnie McFalls, 49, of Guild, Tennessee, charging him with theft of Crawford’s vehicle and tampering with evidence, according to Burnett. McFalls allegedly had Crawford’s vehicle and sold it, the sheriff said.