I'd like to thank you all for coming.
It's greatly appreciated,
and he can tell I've got a really good team.
They've been working very hard on this
case since last week, just to bring
it up to a little bit speed here.
Investigators with the County Sheriff's
Office have been gathering evidence and
information in connection with last week's
discovery of a body in Flowery branch,
and now we're ready to release
sketches of the victim,
as well as a person of interest
and also other information with
regard to how the case is going.
The victim's body was found on Monday,
June the 20th,
2022 in a wooded area off Paradise Point Rd.
Just like Miss Williams told you further,
forensic testing is underway as we
speak to determine cause of death and
other identify identifying information.
The victim sketch,
I think should be up on your
screen at this time.
We had contacted the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation.
For assistance in this case,
they did a forensic sketch for us and
they created a drawing of the what the
victim may have looked like based on
the drawing and also some preliminary
information we got from the autopsy.
We have what we believe is a pretty
accurate drawing of the victim.
It's believed to be a woman,
possibly of mixed race.
In her late 20s mid 30s,
probably around 5 foot 3/5
foot 4 inches in height.
The fingernail pictures which I want
you all to take a good look at it.
That's up there.
I'm going to defer to to BJ
Williams expertise on this one,
but it looks to be some kind
of manicured type nail.
And hopefully if someone sees that
they can possibly identify where
that work might have been done.
I don't know if there you can tell
me more information on the nails,
but from your perspective we
can discuss that OK and then the
point person of interest sketch.
This is a key one.
The GBI forensic artist that did the
victim sketch force also did this sketch.
The person of interest is a white male,
possibly late 20s to late 30s
between 585 eleven with a stocky
type build and you will also see
a video of him moving which I
want you all to take a look at.
Also to help us out.
The the person of the video
on the video walking.
That's the scene where the
body was recovered.
Just so y'all know kind of give
you some perspective to that.
Is that up on the screen it is OK good.
The I'll let you all watch that for
if you see that for just a second.
Let me know when that's over.
OK, good. There's also a side by
side picture that we wanted to put
up with the victim and the suspect,
and this is because the relationship
is unknown at this time as to what
their relationship is with each other.
We don't know if they knew each other,
didn't know each other stranger on stranger,
and hopefully someone seeing them
together will be able to give us
more information on that as well.
The last picture is going to
be a car picture.
It's a late model Gray in color SUV.
The hope is that someone who recognizes
this vehicle and subject will
contact us with further information.
I don't want to influence.
Any information we get in the
future by giving you what?
Conjecture on what a specific vehicle
make and model is at this time we're
working to develop that as we speak.
And then we're going to follow up with
the last slide of a side-by-side sketch.
And some contact information for you for
our tip line and it will be anonymous
if you want to give us any information,
we can keep it anonymous.
It doesn't have to be,
but we'd appreciate any help
y'all can give us.
Anybody have any questions
for your tenant Scalia?
Cause of the victims death yet
was there any apparent trauma,
physical trauma or share with us?
We're going to hold off until we
get the official autopsy report.
We have gotten some preliminary information,
but we're going to hold off until we get
really specific information for release.
Regarding the circumstances of the
discovery of this woman's body.
Yes, it was discovered by a
member of the general public
and reported to law enforcement.
Then we responded.
Yeah, again, that's really
specific information.
I gotta stay away from at this
point just to protect the
integrity of the case. But yeah.
But it's it's it's this. Obviously
it's a suspected homicide. Yes, Sir.
But it's technically murder investigation.
Yeah, at this point, yes it is.
What are your investigators to
the the nails? To the specifics of
all to the nails. Just because
they were they were unusual to me,
at least into us, and hopefully unusual.
I mean, I'm not saying they're unusual,
strange, but unusual enough to not be
common to where someone that may have done
the work for them may have put them on.
May have assisted her.
Might one of her friends may recognize them.
Yeah, I saw this person with
similar anything like that we
can use to identify this person.
That's what's the significance
of the nails is what
was the time stamp on that?
I'm sorry, I did
times all the time stamp.
I can tell you was in the morning,
but I don't get more specific than that.
Was it was in the morning of Thursday?
Yeah, when she was found.
Concerning how long she
might have been out there,
no, we don't not yet.
That's one of the things we hope
to determine. From the autopsy.
Who provided the I mean?
Were you able to call that the
composite of the person of interest
simply from that force camera,
video? Or do you have other?
Where the sketch came from.
The sketch artists will look at
whatever evidence we can give her,
and we can come up with and
looking at the body itself and
then make a determination based
on her training experience.
To do that to complete the sketch.
So it's going to be close.
Was that composite drawn from
just that Portuguese that he
was one of the additional?
I mean I I can speak to that and
again I'm not trying to be evasive,
but we've got to be really
careful at this stage of the
investigation with who I identify,
so I can't really give you a lot
of specifics on any witnesses.
That gave us information of what they saw.
Any evidence that we picked up yet,
and that's because the investigation
is at a really critical phase
right now and I don't want to taint
anything further that we may get.
I don't.
I got to be real careful not to
identify witnesses at this point,
just to confirm that. Who was the
person walking down the street in that
it's the same person that
is walking by the car? Yes.
If you need to see that video
again, would that help?
Sure, maybe because of that e-mail.
OK.
One thing we might want to point
out to, I think it will, well,
it's it's working pretty well right now.
Let's see how it kind of skips that I think
it's going to do that on your e-mail.
Is this a wooded area of of
this road or is it like how? How
populated is this area?
It's a pretty densely
wooded area. I was out there pretty
much that did that entire day. So yes,
it's a. It's a densely wooded area.
At this point, you can't give across
street or anything like that,
and more specific location
not right now. No just
paradise Paradise Point radio.
Do you have anything else?
Alright again.
We really appreciate you
all being here today.
As soon as we have something else,
we will certainly let you know.
Thank you very much.
Should we get her picture back up?
I couldn't.
Thank you.