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A shoplifting arrest in Wisconsin turned into a bizarre
murder investigation in Alabama's Blount County, and led authorities to the
body of a missing Cullman County man.
Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey and Sheriff
Loyd Arrington
announced the arrests of three people in connection with the
disappearance and death of a 53-year-old Holly Pond man who has been missing
since Christmas Day.
33 year old Matthew Brent Thrasher, of Hayden, and 30-year-old Stephanie
Underwood, of Hanceville, were taken into custody in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
after a shoplifting incident. Authorities there realized the car they were in
was stolen car, and further investigation turned up blood inside the vehicle.
A third person,22 year old Christopher "Biggun"
Jones, is in custody in Blount County.
Sheriff's investigators found the body of David Hayes off Buck Ridge Road on
Pine Mountain.
Casey and Blount County sheriff's investigators went to
Wisconsin over the weekend to meet with detectives there. Thrasher and
Underwood remain in the Kenosha County Jail awaiting extradition, according to
jail records there.
They are charged with petty theft, resisting or obstructing
an officer and retail theft. In Alabama, they are charged with first-degree
theft of property,.
Jones, is charged with Hayes' murder. He is being held in
the Blount County Correctional Facility on $500,000 bond.
Thrasher and Underwood were arrested Jan. 13 in Kenosha. They
were in a four-door Chrysler Sebring and, after running the license plate
through a nationwide law enforcement database, authorities learned the car was
registered to Hayes. Hayes had not been seen or heard from by friends and
family since Christmas Eve.
Wisconsin authorities obtained a search warrant for the
Sebring, and later found "brown, reddish stains" that tested positive
for human blood, according to an arrest affidavit for Jones. Underwood and
Thrasher were then questioned by authorities, and they indicated Hayes was
severely injured or killed at 301 Warrior Pass, which is in Hayden.
That home belonged to Jones. Thrasher and Underwood told
authorities that Jones was home at the time, and took part in the attack on
Hayes.
A search of Jones' home found blood in the living room and
in the hallway leading to the door. A wooden object matching the description of
the weapon used to beat Hayes was found outside of Jones' home.
Casey said she expects additional charges to be filed in the
case.
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