North Carolina woman’s remains found buried in concrete in the basement of her own home

The remains of a 70-year-old woman were found in her basement buried in concrete earlier this month and police are now looking for her home guard in connection with the homicide.

Lynn Gay Keene’s family filed a missing person report on July 30, about six weeks after they last heard from her on June 14.

Agents from the Avery County Sheriff’s Office visited her home in Linville Falls, North Carolina, and discovered that Keene’s 2000 Lincoln Town car was missing. Three days later, on August 2, the Cherokee Police Department found Keene’s car abandoned about 100 miles southwest of his home.

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The Avery County Sheriff’s Office and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation then obtained a search warrant for Keene’s home and made the grim discovery.

“During the search, detectives and SBI agents found human remains buried in concrete in the basement of the house,” a spokesperson for the Avery County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. communicated. “An autopsy was performed on the human remains that were located and it was determined by dental records that the remains were those of Ms. Keene. The autopsy also concluded that the cause of death was homicide and that Keene did not ‘was not dead of natural causes. “

Elizabeth Freeman, the 53-year-old former babysitter who may be called Elizabeth Carserino, is now wanted for motor vehicle theft, financial card theft and identity theft.

She may be in Dorchester County, South Carolina, or Cummings, Georgia, as she has family in those two areas, police say.

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Keen’s neighbor and family friend John Thompson said the whole community is in disbelief, according to WXIA.

“I never imagined that would happen. Not here. And not at her,” Thompson told local media. “We all remember seeing her some days and then we started to wonder, oh, it’s been a while since we’ve seen her.”