A cognitively impaired North Carolina woman last seen alive last week on a doorbell camera getting into a stranger's car was found dead in the woods just a few miles from where she disappeared. Ta.
Heather Williams, 25, was captured by Ring doorbell leaving her parents' home in Fayetteville in a “light-colored sedan with a sunroof” around 10 p.m. on January 4, local police said. It was done.
The Fayetteville Police Department launched a missing person investigation into Williams' disappearance and issued a dangerous person alert on January 7th “due to cognitive impairment.”
However, the 25-year-old woman's body was discovered by officers around 5 p.m. Friday in a wooded area about eight miles from where she was last seen alive, the department said. statement Saturday.
Police said Williams' death is being investigated as a homicide.
“Our family is heartbroken to confirm this terrible news,” his sister Mary Williams wrote. facebook Saturday.
“We hope that whoever is responsible for this incident is held accountable and justice is served for Heather.”
mary said Warar The family did not know who was driving the car, and Williams, who was hit by a car in 2015 and suffered from cognitive impairment, limited speech and limited use of her right leg and right arm, had been communicating online with the person. I guessed that they had met. .
“She was very trusting and naive about the dangers there,” she said.
The same day Williams' body was discovered, police also found the suspect's vehicle.
“I would like to ask people out there, if you hear something or see something, someone knows something, someone has told someone, someone knows. You know, you get lost along the way,” Mary told WRAL.
“So somebody has to know something.”
According to the investigation authorities, CBS17 There are several leads under investigation, but no one involved in the incident has yet been identified.
Mary told CBS 17: “What happened to Heather is terrible and I don't want it to happen to anyone else. That's why that person is still in this world and harming others. It's scary to think that that's possible.”
Mary said her family knows “the love Heather had for God and through all her trials and tribulations, she never lost faith and we know we will never lose faith either.” “He said he felt comforted.
“I thank God for the years I spent with her,” she said.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about Williams' case to contact Fayetteville Police Detective E. Alrafai at (910) 723-0327 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477) .
