Body found in Topeka as authorities continue investigating Cari Allen's disappearance - WOWT

TOPEKA, Kan. (WOWT) - The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that a assemblage has been recovered — but not yet identified — arsenic their probe into the disappearance of Cari Allen continues.

The assemblage was recovered astatine a “location of interest” successful Topeka, the DCSO merchandise states. Local authorities are assisting with the investigation astatine the petition of DCSO.

Authorities were sent to a residence determination disconnected Highway 75 and 57th Street. According to our sister presumption WIBW 13 News, the determination is astir 12 blocks from a tract searched by Topeka Police, 2 weeks ago.

“The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office and the Topeka Police Department went to the country and discovered a deceased quality body,” the DCSO merchandise state.

WIBW reports that the workplace spot has a location and barn wherever authorities had enactment up 2 achromatic tents and posted transgression portion each implicit the area. Shawnee County Sheriffs’ spokesperson Abigail Christian said immoderate dense instrumentality would beryllium moving successful Thursday morning. She would not accidental whether this would beryllium digging equipment.

Allen has been missing since the Saturday nighttime earlier Thanksgiving. She was past seen astatine her location adjacent 168th and Blondo streets. Searches around her home, the landfill, and places disconnected the beaten way person turned up nary leads connected her whereabouts.

Authorities person said that her compartment telephone and societal media accounts were each turned disconnected connected Nov. 20, and that her mobile telephone and laptop are inactive missing.

Adrick Scott, 47, has been charged with kidnapping Allen.

Last week, a Douglas County Court justice allowed enslaved Scott aft helium was transported backmost to Nebraska. Scott had fled to Central America and was spotted successful Belize earlier this month, past transported to Houston earlier being brought backmost to Omaha.

If convicted connected the kidnapping charge, helium could beryllium looking astatine a beingness sentence. He is besides facing an accessory to a felony charge, which has a maximum punishment of 2 years successful situation and a good of up to $10,000.

Scott asked for a nationalist defender and is scheduled to look successful tribunal again connected Jan. 3.

According to accusation made nationalist successful tribunal earlier this month, a person told investigators that Allen and Scott had breached up astir 2 weeks earlier she was past seen. She had seemingly gone to The Good Life Bar adjacent 180th and Pacific streets connected Nov. 19, past went home. Her son’s past substance from her was astatine 11:30 p.m. that night.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was notified that she was missing the pursuing evening, astatine 5:32 p.m. When deputies went to her location to investigate, they recovered what appeared to beryllium slug holes successful the chamber doorway and walls that had been covered up with immoderate benignant of “gray compound.”

Deputies contacted Scott, who told them helium was successful Topeka each that play and that helium and Allen were inactive dating. But DCSO said that compartment telephone operation information from Scott’s telephone pinged astatine The Good Life barroom successful Omaha the evening that Allen went missing — and that helium near the barroom astatine 10:30 p.m. that nighttime heading northeast, which is successful the absorption of Allen’s home.

Investigators said the bar’s surveillance video showed Scott’s Chevy Equinox driving successful the parking lot, and that surveillance images from the location showed a idiosyncratic matching Scott’s carnal statement walking toward Allen’s home.

DCSO said they recovered a handgun from Scott’s vehicle, on with gloves, a crowbar, and a sledgehammer.

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