An Alabama man who is a convicted sex offender has been charged in the death of a pregnant Florida teen whose body was found Wednesday after she had been missing for one week.
He is charged in the slaying of 19-year-old Anastasia Gilley. The charge is capital murder during a kidnapping.Houston County Sheriff Donald Valenza in a Thursday press conference said the suspect and victim were acquaintances.
“At one point she may have willfully met him,’’ the sheriff said, “but she was held against her will during those days.”Her sister posted on Facebook that someone heard her scream near her home about 10:30 p.m. that Wednesday and she had not been heard from or seen since then.Her phone, purse and other personal belongings were found at her home. Also, her sister said, she didn’t show up for work and missed a doctor appointment.
The sheriff said his investigators alone put in a combine total of 660 manpower hours on the probe since Sunday. Though the remains have not yet been confirmed to be those of Gilley, Valenza said clothing and jewelry found at the scene matched what Gilley was last known to be wearing.“We strongly believe it is her,’’ he said.
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