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DEATHContinued from 1Afound, but fhe was avoiding me.”Bragg wouldn’t comment on possible motives but did say that Bowles did not confess to the charges.Cathy Jo McCoy was said b have been missing since Juns 2000 but was not entered intothe National Crime Informa-tina Center UtClC) until 2003, when remains were found in the Alta area of Greenbrier Cpunty.“There wasn’t much motivation for her family to report her missing hack then,’’ Cahill noted, adding police long had suspicions a family member was responsible for McCoy’s disappearance.in 2003, Social Security Administration fraud investigators contacted State Police to inform them of a ca;c luulctu-ing McCoy, Cahill explained. He said McCoy was severely injured in a car week in 1998 and was receiving Social Security benefits because of her injuries.Social Security i1Ti«inTn tulil police the remains found in Alta could be McCoy’s, saying she had not been heard from since 201XJ. Police said they believe Bowles had hcon collecting McCoy's Social Security benefits after her disappearance.After testing, it was determined the remains foirod at Alta were not McCoy’s, Cohill saitL He nuted those remains are still unidentified.Cahill said Wednesday after lt;i pj'isHM cujiferei.ee iu Ueckley that, “We have suspects in this case, and wo have thought for' the last eight years, “Hey, that case is there, and it is pretty strong,’ but we never had atody”Now with McCoy’s remains identified, Bowles has bean charged with first-degree murder.Bowles was arraigned in Summers County Thursday and is now being held at the ttuuthern Regional j*iLBragg 9(fid more information will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead.— E-maitr k\.'aupzlllt;‘egistz''hci'oId.cQ/n
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