The Fayetteville Police Department sat down to share their latest developments in the Avantae Deven case, and to ask for the public’s help, in an interview you’ll only see on ABC11.
Deven is accused of murdering and abusing two of her adoptive children before trying to conceal their bodies.
Police say they’re particularly looking for the burn pit they believe Deven last used at her home on Berridale Drive . Police accuse her of using it to incinerate body parts before trying to conceal them at another location–and police say finding it could lead to their next breakthrough.
“The start of this case, we were already on on the back foot,” says the lead detective on the case, Sarah Shirey. “You know, we didn’t know anything about these children or this family until the police department becomes involved. And by then, we were already five years behind the eight ball. So we’re trying to play catch up and figure out who these people are, who they associate with. And that’s been our hardest thing. They don’t really associate with anybody. They don’t really have the traditional friends, the church groups, you know, the sports teams, things like that.”