A Missouri man tried to claim that he did not know the woman who was found dead in his neighbor’s yard. Now he is charged with her murder.
Ephron Long, 54, was arrested on Friday after being charged with the murder of 40-year-old Lindsey Smith, whose body was found in the backyard of a home in St. Louis, Missouri, on Jan. 19. According to a probable cause affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, Long lived in a basement apartment in the home next door, where a witness told police they heard a man and a woman “arguing” days before Smith was found. That argument was allegedly followed by a single gunshot.
Smith was found “partially frozen,” her head in a pool of blood, in the backyard of the home next door. Police said she had started decomposing before she was exposed to the extreme cold…