01-03-2011, 01:34 PM
i don't know if anyone recalls this case, i had a thread going at 24 about it. this past weekend her remains were found, and IDed today.
The brother of a woman who disappeared while on the phone with her boyfriend more than a year ago found her burned, skeletal remains Saturday in the north Georgia woods, authorities said Monday.
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Tests conducted on bones found in Georgia have revealed they are the remains of Kristi Cornwell, who went missing nearly a year and a half ago, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monday.
The positive identification was made through dental records, the bureau said in a statement.
Cornwell, 38, was last seen walking along a road in northern Georgia the night of August 11, 2009, according to the bureau. her boyfriend was on phone with her and heard her screaming.
Passersby found the human remains Saturday in a wooded area about 9 miles from where Cornwell was last seen.
The site where the bones were discovered is in Union County, in far northern Georgia.
Investigators believe Cornwell's disappearance could be related to a December 2009 incident in Ranger, North Carolina, in which a woman was attacked by a man driving a late model Nissan Xterra, the GBI said.
In April, investigators were led to the home of 42-year-old James Scott Carringer, who was suspected of rape in Gilmer County, Georgia. Carringer, who killed himself as police tried to arrest him on the rape charges, also owned a silver Xterra and was originally from Brasstown, North Carolina, not far from Ranger, the GBI said.
The bureau did not specify why investigators believe the two cases are linked.
Last summer, on the one-year anniversary of Cornwell's disappearance, the GBI said it had conducted interviews at 450 houses in the Union County area, and that its file on the case had grown to 40 volumes.
with her son>
The brother of a woman who disappeared while on the phone with her boyfriend more than a year ago found her burned, skeletal remains Saturday in the north Georgia woods, authorities said Monday.
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Tests conducted on bones found in Georgia have revealed they are the remains of Kristi Cornwell, who went missing nearly a year and a half ago, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monday.
The positive identification was made through dental records, the bureau said in a statement.
Cornwell, 38, was last seen walking along a road in northern Georgia the night of August 11, 2009, according to the bureau. her boyfriend was on phone with her and heard her screaming.
Passersby found the human remains Saturday in a wooded area about 9 miles from where Cornwell was last seen.
The site where the bones were discovered is in Union County, in far northern Georgia.
Investigators believe Cornwell's disappearance could be related to a December 2009 incident in Ranger, North Carolina, in which a woman was attacked by a man driving a late model Nissan Xterra, the GBI said.
In April, investigators were led to the home of 42-year-old James Scott Carringer, who was suspected of rape in Gilmer County, Georgia. Carringer, who killed himself as police tried to arrest him on the rape charges, also owned a silver Xterra and was originally from Brasstown, North Carolina, not far from Ranger, the GBI said.
The bureau did not specify why investigators believe the two cases are linked.
Last summer, on the one-year anniversary of Cornwell's disappearance, the GBI said it had conducted interviews at 450 houses in the Union County area, and that its file on the case had grown to 40 volumes.
with her son>