Investigators say a decomposing body found in Clay County Wednesday night is a woman missing since earlier this summer, and that her husband has been charged in her death.
The discovery happened at about 7 p.m. Authorities say the body is that of Stephanie Roark. Roark's relatives say Roark's husband, Walter, has been taken into custody. They say they believer her body had been in a cooler for several weeks, then was buried under her own mobile home, though the sheriff's department says they have no proof of that at this time.
The sheriff's office has charged Walter Roark, 45, with murder and abuse of a corpse. He's being held in the Clay County Detention Center.
A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.) When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
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