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Published January 19, 2023 3:30PM
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Kayla Kelley case: Medical examiner IDs assemblage recovered successful Grand Prairie arsenic missing Collin County woman
Authorities person confirmed that the woman’s assemblage recovered successful Grand Prairie is Kayla Kelley, the Collin County pistillate that's been missing for a week.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The hunt for a Collin County pistillate who went missing a week agone has travel to a tragic end. Authorities person confirmed that the woman’s assemblage that was recovered successful Grand Prairie is Kayla Kelley.
Investigators discovered the assemblage successful a shallow sedate successful a wooded country of Grand Prairie Wednesday afternoon, adjacent Kingswood Boulevard and Prairie Oak Boulevard.
Sharon Brown visited the tract Thursday afternoon.
She brought flowers and 2 balloons, 1 of which she said she sent to Kelley.
"From 1 sister to different sister, I wanted to cognize that she was not alone, that we are going to retrieve her, and we’re sending up flowers to eden successful her name," she explained.
As of Thursday evening, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner had the origin of Kelley’s decease listed arsenic pending.
Authorities haven't said what led them to the Grand Prairie neighborhood, but the 33-year-old woman’s assemblage was recovered little than a mile distant from Ocastor Ferguson’s house.
Ferguson is already successful the Collin County jailhouse connected charges of kidnapping and arson, though helium could look much charges. His enslaved is presently acceptable astatine $1 million.
"We’re not astatine the constituent charging decisions volition beryllium made. There’s further accusation that needs to beryllium done by investigators and the Texas Rangers. They’ll proceed to enactment unneurotic connected this homicide investigation," Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner said.
Kelley was archetypal reported missing by her friends connected Jan. 11.
The affirmative recognition of Kelley’s assemblage brings to an extremity the much than week-long hunt for Kelley.
Court documents said Kelley and Ferguson were successful a relationship, and she had conscionable precocious discovered helium was joined and gave her a fake name. She had reportedly threatened to archer his woman astir the affair.
Investigators recovered Kelley's burned-out car connected a region roadworthy successful Frisco with nary grounds of Kelley. That's wherever the arson complaint comes from for Ferguson.
They said they person grounds that Ferguson was the past idiosyncratic with her.
"Let maine accidental this, this is genuinely a tragedy. We had hoped for a antithetic outcome. Like her family, we were devastated erstwhile it ended up erstwhile we recovered her body," Skinner said.
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Ocastor Ferguson and Kelley were successful a relationship, according to an affidavit. But investigators accidental helium told her his sanction was Kevin. They accidental Kelley precocious recovered retired helium lied astir his sanction and was married. Upset, she told her friends she was going to blackmail him.
While instrumentality enforcement is reluctant to stock galore different details of the case, they said they are acold from done with the investigation.
"While we desperately hoped for a antithetic outcome, I'm grateful for the dogged determination of my deputies and our Texas Rangers successful locating Ms. Kelley," Skinner said. "Make nary mistake, you execution a 33-year-old woman and enactment her successful a shallow grave, we’re going to question justice."
The sheriff’s bureau has indicated we mightiness larn much done further tribunal documents, and immoderate of those mightiness travel retired if further charges are filed.
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