A cognitively impaired North Carolina lady, final seen alive on a doorbell digital camera getting right into a stranger’s automobile final week, was discovered useless within the woods simply miles away from the place she disappeared.
Heather Williams, 25, was captured on Ring doorbell leaving her household’s Fayetteville dwelling and getting right into a “light-colored sedan with a sunroof” at round 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, in response to native legislation enforcement.
The Fayetteville Police Division launched a lacking individuals investigation into Williams’ disappearance and issued an endangered particular person alert on Jan. 7 “due to cognitive impairment.”
Nonetheless, the 25-year-old’s physique was discovered by law enforcement officials in a wooded space at round 5 p.m. on Friday, about 5 miles from the place she was final seen alive, the division stated in an announcement Saturday.
Williams’ loss of life is being investigated as a murder, the division revealed.
“It is with a heavy and broken heart that our family confirms the horrific news,” her sister, Mary Williams, wrote on Fb Saturday.
“I pray whoever is responsible for this is held accountable and there is justice for Heather.”
Mary instructed WRAL that the household didn’t know the particular person driving the automobile and speculated that Williams — who suffered cognitive impairment and had restricted speech and restricted use of her proper leg and proper arm after she was struck by a automobile in 2015 — could have met the person on-line.
“She was just so trusting and naive to what the dangers were out there,” she stated.
The identical day Williams’s physique was discovered, police additionally positioned the suspect’s automobile.
“I just ask that people out there, if they hear anything or if they see something, you know, somebody knows something, somebody’s talked to somebody, somebody has, you know, they slip up along the way,” Mary instructed WRAL.
“So somebody’s got to know something.”
Investigators confirmed to CBS 17 that they’ve some leads they’re trying into however have but to determine an individual of curiosity within the case.
“What happened to Heather is awful and I wouldn’t want it to happen to anybody else, and so with that person still out there, still able to harm other people, it’s horrific to think about,” Mary instructed CBS 17.
Mary stated her household has discovered “comfort in the love that Heather had for God and through all her trials and tribulations, she has never lost her faith and I know we won’t lose ours either.”
“I thank God for the years we had with her,” she stated.
Investigators have requested anybody with details about Williams’s case to contact Fayetteville Police Detective E. Alrafai at (910) 723-0327 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477).
