A tame duck led police to the body of a slain person in the United States.
The police were helped in a tragic murder case by a very special agent. Officers said they discovered the body of a 92-year-old woman, missing since 2020, under a home in Candler, North Carolina on April 14. And it is thanks to a particular animal that the corpse could be found. A tamed duck indeed led the investigators to the body, bringing to light the homicide of which the old lady had been the victim. “The duck ran under the house, and as officers were chasing it, they came across where Nellie Sullivan was,” Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Mark Walker was quoted by ABC as saying. 13 . He added: “If I could give this duck a medal, I would.”
Once the body was recovered by the authorities, the latter did not take long to apprehend the suspects. Angela Wamsley and Mark Barnes have been arrested and charged with murder. Police say the victim was Angela Wamsley’s grandmother. Investigators say Nellie Sullivan was not killed where her body was found. The corpse was moved and then hidden under the house of the two suspects.
According to Sergeant Mark Walker, the two killed the retiree in order to collect her Social Security and retirement money. After her disappearance, they would even have continued to refill her prescription drugs, to prove that she was still alive. More in-depth analyses, in particular anthropological expertise, must be carried out soon in order to know since when the victim died and how she was killed. “Instead of receiving the care she needed from those who are supposed to love her the most, she received the exact opposite in the worst way possible,” lamented Mark Walker.