Neikia Ann Hunter ABDUCTED [REMAINS DISCOVERED][SUSPECT CHARGED] Rich Square, NC

[Grande3]

Woman Kidnapped At Knife Point; Cell Phone Tracked To Greene County
Last Updated: 1:40 PM May 5, 2008
Reporter: Bill Wilson

Police across Eastern Carolina are on the lookout for a woman kidnapped at knife point this morning.

Rich Square police say Neikia Ann Hunter and her car are missing from her home in Northampton County while her cell phone's signal was picked up later in Greene County.

Police say Hunter's boyfriend, Ricky Harris, called them this morning at 2:45 and said someone broke into his home on Stanford Street and stabbed him.

Harris was wounded multiple times and is in serious condition at Norfolk General Hospital.

Police say Hunter's 1995 black Acura Integra is also missing from the home. It has North Carolina license VSL-1379.

They tell WITN News that Hunter's cell phone signal was traced to Snow Hill around 10:30 a.m.

Hunter is a 27 year old black woman, 5' 8" in height and weighs 130 pounds. She wears glasses, has short brown hair and tattoos on her neck and each shoulder.

http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/18581809.html

[Nut44x4]

Body found on bank of Catawba River 7:13 AM

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. -- Police are investigating after a body was found on a bank of the Catawba River in Mount Holly.

Officers said they were called to the scene about a mile north of Wilkinson Boulevard at about 1:30 p.m. Monday.

Mount Holly police are now calling the death a murder. Few details are available about the victim. We know she is a woman, but her name and age remain a mystery.

Police were called to the isolated bank on the Catawba River by a man who was on his jet ski. He saw the body and asked some construction workers to call 911.

David Herron was one of the workers.

“The guy was real panicky and he come flying up on his jet ski, his watercraft, and when he got over here he was calling for somebody to call an ambulance," Herron said.

The victim was found along the riverbank beside her car that had hit a tree stump. Police said that stump prevented the car from going into the water.

The FBI has been called in to process the car because their equipment is more advanced than what’s available to local authorities.

Investigators confirm they found an I.D. on the victim, but the medical examiner will have to make a positive identification, in addition to finding a cause of death.
http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-050508-mw-catawbariverbody.cfdaa890.html
VIDEO AT LINK

[TigressPen]

This is sad. First thought is that the body and car is that of Miss Hunter. :1222423:

[packy]

They are calling it a murder. Maybe someone hoped the car would go in the water and not be found.

[TigressPen]

They are calling it a murder. Maybe someone hoped the car would go in the water and not be found.



Thankfully it didn't or she may have never been found.

[Nut44x4]

That car sure looks like an Acura to me.

[Nut44x4]

Not her....not her car. Report says it was Irina Yarmolenko. 20 yr. old UNCC student
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-050608-mw-catawbabodyID.d4cbc2b6.html

[TigressPen]

Not her....not her car. Report says it was Irina Yarmolenko. 20 yr. old UNCC student
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-050608-mw-catawbabodyID.d4cbc2b6.html


And they are investigating her death as a homicide too. For Irina :1222423:

[cherokee_brown]

Neikia's body was found in an old abandoned home a few miles from her house a little over a day after she went missing. The police have arrested on who admits to stabbing the boyfriend but refuses to admit that he had anything to do with Neikia's murder. A blessing is that her small son was not at home at the time of the crime. Her myspace page references her love of TV shows like Forensic Files, CSI, etc. maybe the techniques simulated in those shows can help bring her murderer to justice.

[Grande]

Neikia's body was found in an old abandoned home a few miles from her house a little over a day after she went missing. The police have arrested on who admits to stabbing the boyfriend but refuses to admit that he had anything to do with Neikia's murder. A blessing is that her small son was not at home at the time of the crime. Her myspace page references her love of TV shows like Forensic Files, CSI, etc. maybe the techniques simulated in those shows can help bring her murderer to justice.

Thank you for the update cherokee! I was hoping, like many, for a better outcome. Do you happen to know the name of the man who is accussed of stabbing Neikia's b/f?

RIP Neikia :1222423:

[Nut44x4]

http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/18581809.html


Garland Fisher

There are more charges against a man who police say kidnapped a Northampton County woman and tried to kill her boyfriend.

Garland Fisher is now charged with murder and rape, in addition to the original charges brought when he was arrested Tuesday.

Fisher is accused of kidnapping Neikia Ann Hunter from her Rich Square home early Monday morning. Hunter's boyfriend was stabbed and is in a Norfolk hospital.

Police say Fisher raped Hunter before killing her. The woman's body was found Tuesday morning in an abandoned house just outside of Rich Square.

The state says Fisher has an extensive criminal record. Since 1997, the 27-year-old man has been convicted of 26 different charges. Most of those were for breaking & entering and larceny.

Tuesday Update

Rich Square police say the body of Neikia Ann Hunter was found Tuesday morning in an abandoned house just outside the Northampton County town of Rich Square.

Lawmen from the Rich Square Police Department, Northampton County Sheriffs Office and the State Bureau Of Investigation arrested 27 year-old Garland Fisher.

Fisher is charged with first degree kidnapping, first degree burglary, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and attempted murder.

Lawmen say they are awaiting autopsy results on Hunter before going forward with a murder charge. They tell WITN that more suspects could be arrested.

Hunter was kidnapped early Monday morning from her home, while her boyfriend was stabbed.

Monday's story

Police across Eastern Carolina have been on the lookout for Neikia Ann Hunter, who they say was kidnapped at knife point Monday morning.

Rich Square police say Neikia Ann Hunter and her car were missing from her home in Northampton County while her cell phone's signal was picked up later in Greene County.

Police say Hunter's boyfriend, Ricky Harris, called them this morning at 2:45 and said someone broke into his home on Stanford Street and stabbed him.

Harris was wounded multiple times and is in serious condition at Norfolk General Hospital.

Police say Hunter's 1995 black Acura Integra is also missing from the home. It has North Carolina license VSL-1379.

They tell WITN News that Hunter's cell phone signal was traced to Snow Hill around 10:30 a.m.

[Roamer]

I'm so sorry it turned out this way. Condolences to her family and friends. :1222423:

[cherokee_brown]

Here is an update. His name is Garland Fisher. I live in this small town and hear all of the possible motives as everyone knows everyone.

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2841550/

[cherokee_brown]

Two additional suspects have been questioned and released by authorities.

[Grande]

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/apps/offender/offend1?DOCNUM=0611677&SENTENCEINFO=yes&SHOWPHOTO=no&numtimesin=1

[Grande]

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[Faith]

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[packy]

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/apps/offender/offend1?DOCNUM=0611677&SENTENCEINFO=yes&SHOWPHOTO=no&numtimesin=1

Still inactive per the doc report as of March 24, 2009. Can't find any hearing or trial news regarding this case.