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Post by LadyBlue on May 19, 2014 22:37:19 GMT -5
Neighbors of a slain Eatonton couple attending a community meeting over the weekend thought they’d be the ones asking the questions. They didn’t know they’d be on the receiving end of a questionnaire prepared by the FBI’s behavioral science unit. More than 50 investigators, including nearly two dozen federal agents, were on hand for Saturday’s meeting. “We weren’t questioning people as suspects,” Sheriff Howard Sills said Monday, “but we might develop one out of it.” Investigators quizzed more than 200 of Russell and Shirley Dermond’s neighbors in the Great Waters community about their security cameras and maintenance workers, among other things. Sills said everyone complied, save for a few people with prior engagements. Further interviews are possible, he said. Two fishermen recovered the body of 87-year-old Shirley Dermond — missing for two weeks — Friday afternoon near Wallace Dam in Lake Oconee. She had been dumped in one of the deepest parts of the lake but was discovered hung up in the tree line. Her 88-year-old husband’s decapitated body was found May 6 in the garage of the couple’s home, located about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta. Investigators had hoped to locate Russell Dermond’s head near where his wife’s body had been discarded. But Department of Natural Resources rangers canvassing the area over the weekend turned up nothing and have suspended the search pending new leads. www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/han/2014/05/16/lake-oconee-body-putnam-county/9187743/www.ajc.com/news/news/local/decapitation-mystery-slain-couples-neighbors-quest/nfzY5/
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Post by LadyBlue on May 19, 2014 22:41:58 GMT -5
Shirley Dermond- Slain Ga. woman, 87, suffered head trauma EATONTON, Ga. -- An 87-year-old Georgia woman found dead in a lake after a search suffered blunt force trauma to the head, reports CBS affiliate WGCL. Officials have positively identified the woman's body found by fisherman in Lake Oconee Friday as that of Shirley Dermond, WGCL reports. Police feared the elderly woman abducted after her husband Russell Dermond, 89, was found slain and decapitated in the couple's home earlier this month. Investigators believe someone killed Shirley Dermond before dumping her body into the lake because they said no water was found in her lungs, reports the station. The time authorities believe her badly decomposed body was in the lake is consistent with the timing of when her husband was killed a few weeks ago. Sills said the body was discovered five to six miles from the couple's home, raising the possibility that the assailant or assailants may have used a boat to gain access to the property and possibly took Shirley Dermond with them when they left. "That body was transported there, or at least to that vicinity," Sills said. www.cbsnews.com/news/report-slain-ga-woman-87-suffered-head-trauma/
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Post by LadyBlue on May 19, 2014 23:05:05 GMT -5
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