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Woman’s body found
Man charged, says Colquitt sheriff
Frank Sayles/Publisher CNHI
TIFTON — The badly decomposed body of Sunday Blombergh, a Tift County woman missing since April 22, was found Thursday in a wooded area in Colquitt County near the Tift County line, authorities say.
The body has been positively identified, said David Haire, spokesman for the Tift County Sheriff’s Office.
Late Thursday afternoon, Haire said the Blombergh family had been notified. But the Sheriff’s Office refused to comment further and would not say whether homicide is suspected and if anyone has been arrested.
However, Colquitt County Sheriff Al Whittington told the Moultrie Observer that a man has been charged in connection with the case.
“All I know is they made an arrest and the guy told them where to go find the body,” Whittington said.
The body was found in deep woods accessed from near the bridge at the dead end of Vickers Bridge Road, said Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock. The location was between Ellenton and Lenox.
The body was turned over to the Tift County Coroner’s Office, Brock said.
Brock told the Observer that he was called out to an area on Vickers Bridge Road at about 1:15 p.m. Thursday. The condition of the body prevented him from determining the person’s sex or age, he said.
“It was under investigation by the Tift County Sheriff’s Office and GBI,” he said. “After I did an on-site investigation, I released it to the Tift County coroner.”
Haire was asked specifically about arrests in connection with the case.
“I cannot confirm or deny anything,” Haire said. “I can only say what the (Tift) sheriff and the GBI have authorized me to say.”
Haire said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s assistant special agent in charge of the case, Mark Pro, was with him as he talked to the Gazette on the phone. The agent declined to speak to the newspaper, Haire said.
When asked why the Tift County Sheriff’s Office and the GBI are shrouding the basic details of the case in so much secrecy, Haire would only say that a press conference is scheduled at 11 a.m. today.
Sheriff Gary Vowell was unavailable to comment, Haire said Thursday.
Blombergh, 28, disappeared from her Tift County home on April 22. She and her young school-aged daughter were living with her mother-in-law, Ruby Evans, in a home on Briarwood Lane in southern Tift County.
One of Sunday Blombergh’s sisters, Sunshine Blombergh, had told the Gazette that she was scheduled to pick up her sister at the home and plans were that Sunday would get a job in Tallahassee, Fla., visit her daughter in Tifton until school was out for summer break and then move with her daughter to Tallahassee.
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