ASHEVILLE The woman found dead near the Blue Ridge Parkway a week ago was killed by blunt force trauma to the head, a Buncombe County sheriffs investigator said this afternoon.
Sheriffs Lt. Ross Dillingham said he could not say what type of object was used to hit Misty Lynn Carter in the head. Investigators consider her killing a homicide. An autopsy determined the cause of death.
The 21-year-old Mountain Home residents body was found lying in the dirt a few feet from the roadway at Milepost 395 near Glenn Gap and north of the Walnut Cove overlook.
There us already a thread started on this case, I'll ask a Mod to merge.
Oh my. That is a cunundrum to call the police, wait and then be treated as a suspect and have your life torn apart. Geez, what simply innocent things might we all have on our computers that LE could link as relevant and cause an innocent person to be a suspect? A little frightening.
What would you do? Maybe that's another thread.
I hope they are able to find some good evidence. No clothes, thrown on the side of the road? Does that sound like it was someone she knew? Not to me, but you never know.
Misty Carter's nude body was found beside the road on the Blue Ridge Parkway .... the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.
You can read more about this case on the Asheville Times website. She had been visiting her sister that weekend and left Sunday to be found on the Parkway Monday morning. There have been no arrests nor are there any suspects .... very mystifying case.
link to 911 call associated with the location of Misty's body....
http://www2.wspa.com/spa/news/local...covery_of_a_body_on_blue_ridge_parkway/28429/