A South Carolina husband allegedly murdered his wife and dumped her body near a lake with the help of his two roommates before joining in on search parties looking for his wife who was reported missing.
Jessica Barnes, 20, was last seen on Aug. 1 at her Pendleton, SC home that she shared with her husband, Brandon Barnes and two roommates Kendall Mims and Victoria Tippett.
She was not reported missing until her mother Cecilia Varvara contacted the Pendleton Police Department on Sept. 10.
Varvara had received text messages from her daughter, but didn’t believe they were from her because of how they weren’t written, according to WYFF.
“Details surrounding the disappearance were vague and material and personnel from (the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division) were required and needed for this continued investigation,” Pendleton Police Chief Robert Crosby said during a press conference on Wednesday.