The trigger and manner of Florida mother Cassie Carli’s death have each been ruled “undetermined” months after the younger mother’s physique was found in Alabama in April, officers mentioned Thursday.
Carli’s physique was found death in a shallow grave in a barn in Alabama’s St. Clair County on April 2, hours after her ex-boyfriend and father of her little one, Marcus Spanevelo, was arrested for tampering with proof, destruction of proof, and giving false information regarding a lacking particular person investigation. An post-mortem was carried out on April 4.
More than six months later, St. Clair County Coroner Dennis Russell advised Fox News Digital Carli had no apparent indicators of trauma to her physique, and the manner and trigger of death had been deemed “undetermined.”
“At this point, they cannot determine what she died from,” Russell mentioned. “At this point, we do not know what her cause of death was.”
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Cassie Carli and Marcus Spanevelo
(Photo courtesy Carli household | Santa Rosa County Sheriff)
Carli was final seen on the night of March 27, whereas assembly Spanevelo within the car parking zone of a beachside restaurant, Juana’s Pagoda, not removed from her residence in Navarre, police have mentioned. Investigators later recovered her automobile together with her purse inside, and confirmed the couple’s 4-year-old daughter was protected.
Her disappearance prompted lacking particular person searches by legislation enforcement and household for practically every week.
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Investigators later tracked Spanevelo greater than 4 hours and over 260 miles away in Birmingham, Alabama, the place they questioned him and had been in a position to verify in on the couple’s daughter.
Marcus Spanevelo’s April 17, 2022, reserving photograph
(Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office)
They arrested him on April 2 throughout a visitors cease in Lebanon, Tennessee. Spanevelo stays behind bars on the Santa Rosa County Jail, information present.
Investigators later described in an affidavit how Spanelevo offered false information to legislation enforcement “by not disclosing pertinent information about where he stopped along his route of returning home to Panama City Beach with [redacted] later” on the night when Carli was final seen.
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He additionally initially allegedly failed to inform investigators that he threw an merchandise out the window of his truck sooner or later earlier than police caught as much as him. While particulars surrounding the merchandise had been redacted within the report, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson beforehand advised reporters the costs for tampering and destroying proof had been associated to the disposal of Carli’s cellphone.
Spanevelo allegedly finally admitted doing so, telling investigators “he did not care about [redacted] property so he chose to just throw it out of the window.”
Another particular person advised investigators on March 31 that Spanevelo mentioned he threw the merchandise out as a result of “he had to get rid of it,” the affidavit said.
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According to the redacted affidavit, investigators first interviewed Spanevelo on March 29, when he described how “there was an altercation” sooner or later when he met with somebody, presumably Carli, on March 27.
Family pictures of Cassie Carli
(Courtesy of Carli household)
He allegedly wouldn’t elaborate to investigators, however went on to explain how the particular person, whose identify was redacted, was performing “hyper” however he agreed to drive them to an unspecified location as a result of it was on his approach to his vacation spot. He claimed the particular person “jumped out” and “he drove away and left [redacted]” and returned to his Panama City Beach, Florida, residence.
But investigators finally obtained surveillance footage that confirmed solely Spanevelo within the entrance of the automobile, and nobody sitting within the passenger seat. And Carli isn’t seen leaving or coming into the automobile when Spanevelo makes stops alongside his journey – together with one when he buys a “pay as you go” cellphone at a retailer, the affidavit states.
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“Marcus (sic) information about her being dropped off was not corroborated,” investigators mentioned.
Flyer seen at a gathering website for volunteers who had been trying to find Cassie Carli in Navarre Beach, Florida, April 2, 2022.
(Fox News Digital/Stephanie Pagones)
Investigators additional accuse Spanevelo of mendacity in saying he by no means touched one of the automobiles concerned within the investigation, citing surveillance footage that confirmed in any other case.
Fox News Digital beforehand reported how Carli had thought-about buying a gun and acquiring a hid carry allow out of concern for her security. And additionally that Spanevelo was ordered to pay her $5,920 in overdue little one assist simply days earlier than she vanished.
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Carli had documented her unstable historical past with Spanevelo in a GoFundMe web page that her sister created to assist her pay for authorized charges throughout her ongoing custodial dispute over the couple’s younger daughter.
And members of the family beforehand advised Fox News Digital that Cassie had felt “extremely unsafe” round Spanevelo, and had warned them to look to him if something occurred to her.
