BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A person was charged with abusing the corpse of a former girlfriend whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in an Alabama barn days after the 2 had met in the Florida Panhandle to change custody of their daughter.
Authorities in St. Clair County, Alabama, on Monday mentioned Marcus Spanevelo, 35, was accused of mistreating the stays of Cassie Carli however wasn’t charged in her dying, news shops reported.
The cost was introduced days after authorities in Florida dismissed an evidence-tampering cost that had been filed towards Spanevelo over the investigation into the woman’s disappearance in Santa Rosa County. They additionally dismissed a cost accusing him of mendacity to investigators.
Carli was last seen in March after assembly Spanevelo in the car parking zone of a restaurant in Navarre, Florida, the place she went to choose up their preschool-age daughter after a go to with the person, who’s the kid’s father.
The woman’s household reported her lacking, and her body was found in a shallow grave in a barn in Springville, situated northeast of Birmingham, on April 3. Investigators mentioned Spanevelo had ties to the property the place Carli’s body was situated.
An examination failed to find out how the woman died, officers mentioned. Carli’s body was discovered after Spanevelo’s arrest in Tennessee, authorities mentioned.
Spanevelo has agreed to return to Alabama for prosecution, prosecutors mentioned. Court data weren’t instantly obtainable Tuesday to point out whether or not he had an lawyer who might communicate on his behalf.