A cognitively impaired North Carolina lady, final seen alive on a doorbell digital camera getting right into a stranger’s automotive final week, was discovered lifeless within the woods simply miles away from the place she disappeared.
Heather Williams, 25, was captured on Ring doorbell leaving her household’s Fayetteville house and getting right into a “light-colored sedan with a sunroof” at round 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, in keeping with native regulation enforcement.
The Fayetteville Police Division launched a lacking individuals investigation into Williams’ disappearance and issued an endangered particular person alert on Jan. 7 “as a result of cognitive impairment.”
Nonetheless, the 25-year-old’s physique was discovered by law enforcement officials in a wooded space at round 5 p.m. on Friday, about 5 miles from the place she was final seen alive, the division stated in a assertion Saturday.
Williams’ demise is being investigated as a murder, the division revealed.
“It’s with a heavy and damaged coronary heart that our household confirms the horrific information,” her sister, Mary Williams, wrote on Fb Saturday.
“I pray whoever is accountable for that is held accountable and there’s justice for Heather.”
Mary advised WRAL that the household didn’t know the particular person driving the automobile and speculated that Williams — who suffered cognitive impairment and had restricted speech and restricted use of her proper leg and proper arm after she was struck by a automotive in 2015 — could have met the person on-line.
“She was simply so trusting and naive to what the risks had been on the market,” she stated.
The identical day Williams’s physique was discovered, police additionally positioned the suspect’s automobile.
“I simply ask that folks on the market, in the event that they hear something or in the event that they see one thing, you realize, any person is aware of one thing, any person’s talked to any person, any person has, you realize, they slip up alongside the way in which,” Mary advised WRAL.
“So any person’s received to know one thing.”
Investigators confirmed to CBS 17 that they’ve some leads they’re trying into however have but to establish an individual of curiosity within the case.
“What occurred to Heather is terrible and I wouldn’t need it to occur to anyone else, and so with that particular person nonetheless on the market, nonetheless in a position to hurt different folks, it’s horrific to consider,” Mary advised CBS 17.
Mary stated her household has discovered “consolation within the love that Heather had for God and thru all her trials and tribulations, she has by no means misplaced her religion and I do know we received’t lose ours both.”
“I thank God for the years we had along with her,” she stated.
Investigators have requested anybody with details about Williams’s case to contact Fayetteville Police Detective E. Alrafai at (910) 723-0327 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477).