The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina said a man was charged with murder after the remains of a missing man were found.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies received information on March 20, 2023, that a man had been missing from the Ellenboro area.
Deputies said they contacted family members of Phillip Cullen Burr and the family confirmed he had not been seen or heard from since November 2021.
Investigators gathered information from family and began an investigation into his disappearance. After a few months, the investigation transition from a missing persons case into a homicide case.
Deputies identified the suspect in the case as Jacob Dwayne Hall.
On May 26, 2023, deputies along with the York County Sheriff’s Office, the York County Coroner’s Office, Foothills Search and Rescue, and the University of South Carolina Anthropology Department investigators executed a search warrant at a property in Clover, South Carolina.
During the search, deputies said they found Burr’s remains and Hall was arrested.
The case was presented before a grand jury in Rutherford County on August 10, 2023, and Hall was indicted on a first degree murder charge.
He is currently in jail in South Carolina on unrelated charges.
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