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• With the help of a fine feathered friend, investigators in Buncombe County, North Carolina, are finally wrapping a cold (duck) case from 2020, WLOS-TV reported.
Nellie Sullivan, a woman in her 90s, was determined to be missing in 2020, but her body was never located.
Nevertheless, her granddaughter, Angela Wamsley, 46, and Wamsley's boyfriend, Mark Barnes, 50, were arrested in December 2020 on multiple charges, including concealing a death.
On April 14, a couple out walking their pet duck discovered a container after the duck wandered under a trailer where Wamsley and Barnes once lived.
Sullivan's remains were inside.
"If I could give that duck a medal, I would," said Sgt. Mark Walker.
He said Wamsley and Barnes continued to collect Sullivan's Social Security and retirement benefits and fill her prescriptions after her demise. [WLOS, 4/21/2022]