12-30-2011, 04:02 PM
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Detroit Free Press - A woman whose badly burned body was found in a car trunk on Christmas Day in Detroit has been identified as Vernithea McCrary, 28, police confirmed this morning.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office said the Detroit woman was identified Thursday using dental records.
The 28-year-old woman who was found with her has yet to be identified, but family members of Natasha Curtis said they fear she is the second victim.
Cortez Wingfield, Curtis' longtime boyfriend, told the Free Press on Thursday that Curtis left with McCrary at about 8 p.m. Dec. 23. He said he spoke to her about two hours later. She told Wingfield she loved him, and he hasn't heard from her since.
Wingfield knew something was wrong when she didn't come home or call Dec. 24 -- her birthday. She was to turn 29.
The medical examiner's office has not yet positively identified Curtis using dental records, but loved ones say they believe it is her because the women were found in McCrary's 1997 Buick LeSabre parked in a garage in the 14900 block of Lannette.
Six days earlier, police found the bodies of two other women just blocks away.
Those victims were cousins Renisha Landers, 23, an assembly-line worker at a Chrysler plant in Sterling Heights, and Demesha Hunt, 24, of Detroit, who left behind a 10-month-old daughter. They were found dead in the trunk of Landers' Chrysler 300 on Dec. 19 in the 14900 block of Promenade.
Detroit police have tied three of the victims to Backpage.com, a website that advertises escort services, and say they believe the cases may be connected.
Police have said someone could be targeting escorts, but they stopped short of calling it a serial killing.
Detroit Free Press - A woman whose badly burned body was found in a car trunk on Christmas Day in Detroit has been identified as Vernithea McCrary, 28, police confirmed this morning.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office said the Detroit woman was identified Thursday using dental records.
The 28-year-old woman who was found with her has yet to be identified, but family members of Natasha Curtis said they fear she is the second victim.
Cortez Wingfield, Curtis' longtime boyfriend, told the Free Press on Thursday that Curtis left with McCrary at about 8 p.m. Dec. 23. He said he spoke to her about two hours later. She told Wingfield she loved him, and he hasn't heard from her since.
Wingfield knew something was wrong when she didn't come home or call Dec. 24 -- her birthday. She was to turn 29.
The medical examiner's office has not yet positively identified Curtis using dental records, but loved ones say they believe it is her because the women were found in McCrary's 1997 Buick LeSabre parked in a garage in the 14900 block of Lannette.
Six days earlier, police found the bodies of two other women just blocks away.
Those victims were cousins Renisha Landers, 23, an assembly-line worker at a Chrysler plant in Sterling Heights, and Demesha Hunt, 24, of Detroit, who left behind a 10-month-old daughter. They were found dead in the trunk of Landers' Chrysler 300 on Dec. 19 in the 14900 block of Promenade.
Detroit police have tied three of the victims to Backpage.com, a website that advertises escort services, and say they believe the cases may be connected.
Police have said someone could be targeting escorts, but they stopped short of calling it a serial killing.
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