Clarence Edward McCorkle / Photo from right2know.timesfreepress.comCatoosa County, Georgia Sheriff's Office detectives and U.S. marshals are looking for Clarence Edward McCorkle in connection with a burned body found in Marion County, Tennessee, last week.
The sheriff's office already arrested another suspect, 49-year-old Ricky Lee Whittemore, on Monday, charging him with concealing the death of another and tampering with evidence. After a woman died from a drug overdose in Whittemore's Ringgold home, Sheriff Gary Sisk said, Whittemore and McCorkle allegedly brought her body from Ringgold to New Hope, Tennessee, last week. They allegedly burned her body, which a train engineer found near some railroad tracks Friday.
Sisk said the detectives have received a couple of different addresses for McCorkle, but their pursuit has come up empty so far.
"He is bouncing all over the place," Sisk said.
Ricky Lee WhittemoreThe sheriff said McCorkle, Whittemore, the victim and some other people were together at a home on Chastain Road in LaFayette. Later in the evening of April 23, McCorkle, Whittemore and the woman left together for Whittemore's home, located at 385 Whittemore Hollow Road.
The woman died of a drug overdose that night or early the next morning, Sisk said. Whittemore and McCorkle then allegedly drove to Tennessee to hide the human remains.
Sisk said Whittemore then drove to Chastain Road and burned some items that he and McCorkle used to move the woman's body. On Saturday, the Walker County Sheriff's Office arrested Whittemore on a domestic violence charge. The Catoosa County Sheriff's Office then arrested him Monday.
Whittemore has talked with detectives, who have a name for the woman. However, medical examiners with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are still working to identify the body, based on dental records.