The Manchester Police Department and the TBI are currently investigating a homicide after the body of Allecia Wolfe, a 40-year-old woman from Orlando, Florida, was discovered in a field behind the Truckers Inn in Manchester, as first reported by WSMV. Wolfe, also known as Allecia Carnley, was found last Monday, but the circumstances leading to her death remain a mystery, officials disclosed to Aleah Carnley, Wolfe’s daughter, that her mother did not suffer any obvious signs of trauma such as gunshot or stab wounds.
In an emotional recount captured by WSMV, Carnley described falling to the ground upon receiving news of her mother’s death, holding her son in her arms, her mother was last seen by her friends on Friday night getting into a black car in Orlando, and neither Carnley nor her grandmother could make sense of Wolfe’s unexpected and tragic presence in Tennessee, a place with which they had no known connection. “She was a street worker. She was not known to be around truckers or anything like that, so I don’t know how she was found next to a truck stop. It’s a whole confusing wad of mess,” Carnley told WKRN.
The case has raised a number of questions, notably how Wolfe, who was without a car, traversed the 600 miles from her home to where her body was found, Carnley has theorized to WKRN that “someone picked her up and dumped her,” as it was unusual for Wolfe to vanish but she would almost always stay in contact through daily conversations. Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott has said that nothing has been ruled out in the investigation and the medical examiner’s office is tasked with determining the precise cause of death…