Search warrant affidavits filed in a Franklin County court are providing new details into the multi-jurisdictional investigation into the disappearance and death of a 17-year-old Indiana girl, including that she had been talking to a Columbus man online for more than a year.
Columbus police homicide and missing persons detectives filed the two warrants related to Tyler Thomas, 39, who is accused of being involved in the death of Hailey Buzbee.
Buzbee, of Fishers, Indiana, was last seen on Jan. 5. Thomas was arrested on Jan. 31. He is charged in Franklin County Municipal Court with pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor and tampering with evidence…