It is with sadness to have to report the earthly body of Katelyn Beard of Mississippi has been located. Our prayers to her family and all that loved her.
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The body of missing 17-year-old Katelyn Beard was found Tuesday morning in rural Madison County with the help of the man accused in her death.
Dewayne Thompson is charged with capital murder after allegedly shooting and abducting Beard on Sunday. Her body was found on Darden Road on the other side of a barbed wire fence, just a few feet off the road..
Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart says it appears Beard's body was in the ditch for about two days. She said there was no attempt to hide or bury the body.
Just hours after Beard's Nissan Altima was found in west Jackson, Thompson was found in a nearby abandoned house Monday and arrested by JPD after a foot chase.
Beard disappeared from Thompson's Jackson home on Lynda Street, less than a mile from where the car was found. The abduction lead to an Amber Alert, with the Jackson Police Department and Mississippi Highway Patrol releasing statements that she needed medical attention and was in grave danger, and that Thompson was considered armed and dangerous.
Interim Police Chief Lee Vance said, Thompson apparently left the car behind a building at 1 Dutchman Row and ran to the abandoned house on Ford Avenue, where he was found after police got a tip Monday. Thompson was wanted for aggravated assault, kidnapping and auto theft.
"When he saw us pull up, he took off running," Vance said.
JPD spokeswoman Colendula Green said an officer was on routine patrol around 9:40 a.m. when he found Beard's Nissan Altima.
A cadaver dog brought in from Columbus did not locate a body near Beard's car or in the neighborhood where the vehicle was found. Vance said he hadn't seen the report on the condition of the vehicle, so he was not able to say if it looked like Beard had been transported in the front seat, the back seat or the trunk.
Police said they are not sure what led Thompson to the area of Darden Road.
"It's kind of a rough neighborhood if you want to know the truth. I have a lot of stuff disappear," said Donnie Burgess, who leases land across the road from where Beard's body was found.
Pocahontas resident Earl Webster said there have been several bodies found in that area through the years.
"They do things like that, then they want to come out in the country out here and get rid of the evidence," he said. "He knew he was wrong because he tried to hide and conceal it."
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LostNMissing Inc., is an all-volunteer national tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "code") and qualifies as a public supported organization under Sections, or Categories: P99 (Human Services - Multipurpose and Other N.E.C.); M99 (Other Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness, and Relief N.E.C.); I01 (Alliance/Advocacy Organizations). LostNMissing is organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of New Hampshire. We never charge a fee for our services.
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