Woman connected to disappearance of mother feared dead works for local police department

Channel 2 Action News has learned that the wife of a man suspected in a missing metro Atlanta mother’s disappearance worked for a local police department.

Brianna Winston, 23, was reported missing by family members on April 1. They said her 4-year-old daughter had been staying with the dad’s family, and no one had heard from Winston in weeks.

Police say she stopped showing up for work March 17. Now, police say that is the day detectives think she vanished.

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In an updated statement, Clayton County Police Department wrote, “They believe she was the victim of a crime that left her incapacitated in some way.

Detectives named two people of interest in the case: the father of Winston’s child, Michael Edwards, and his wife, Brienna Phillips-Edwards.

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