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http://www.ktxs.com/news/authorities-investigating-homicide-in-northern-brown-county6/39566466
http://www.ktxs.com/news/police-investigating-potential-weapon-in-lake-brownwood-homicide/39722646
http://www.brownwoodtx.com/article/20160606/NEWS/160609717
The body of 25-year-old Rhonda Chantay Blankinship was found at 5:20 p.m. Sunday along Country Road 424 in an abandoned house about five miles from her Lake Brownwood home...
Community members told KTXS the mentally challenged woman was known to walk through the streets of northern Lake Brownwood.
"When driving down the road, she'd always wave at you, carrying her phone, and listening to music," McDaniel said.
http://www.ktxs.com/news/police-investigating-potential-weapon-in-lake-brownwood-homicide/39722646
The Brown County Sheriffs Office possesses the weapon that they believe killed Rhonda Chantay Blankinship.
Brown County Sheriff George Caldwell said theyre running forensics on the weapon, but they refuse to release what the weapon is. According to previous reports, Blankinship was killed by blunt force trauma...
Caldwell said they also havent located Blankinships cell phone.
http://www.brownwoodtx.com/article/20160606/NEWS/160609717
Brown County Commissioners approved the sheriffs offices request Monday to hire a lab for DNA analysis on evidence in the Chantay Blankinship homicide, rather than waiting on the heavily backlogged state crime lab.
Commissioners approved Chief Deputy Vance Hills request to hire the Tarrant County Medical Examiners lab, which will provide results in three weeks. It would take the Department of Public Safety Crime Lab at least six months to begin to look at the evidence even with a rush request...
Sheriffs investigators have had no major breaks in 25-year-old North Lake Brownwood womans murder last month, Hill said Friday.