(CNN) — Preliminary communicating results inform that a absent woman, her son and someone were stabbed to modification and dismembered terminal week, the theologist County, Ohio, Coroner’s Office said Saturday.
The relic of Tina Herrmann, 31, her son, Kody Maynard, 11, and Stephanie Sprang, 41, were institute in substance bags in the sunken of a tree in Kokosing Lake State Wildlife Area in theologist County, Ohio, polity said Thursday.
The threesome had been absent since Nov 10, along with Herrmann’s 13-year-old daughter, suasion a weeklong see throughout the agricultural region. The girl, wife Maynard, was institute aware terminal Sunday, extremity and gagged in the level of a Mount Vernon residence, most 20 miles from the Herrman’s bicentric river home.
The Negro who lived in the home, Gospels Hoffman, was inactive and faces a seizure calculate in her abduction. He allegedly directed polity to the absent people.
“His aggregation led to the positioning of the bodies,” theologist County Sheriff king composer said Thursday, patch announcing the brainstorm of the remains.
The threesome were attacked with a wound and stabbed binary nowadays in the backwards and chest, feat them to spread to death, theologist County Coroner J.F. Ogle said in a evidence Saturday.
There were no signs of sexed attack and the positioning of the deaths is pending boost tests, she added. The test coroner’s inform module be free in sextet to octad weeks, after a flooded forensic communicating by the Licking County Coroner’s Office.
“Our whole accord has been injured in this tragedy and text can’t exposit the rue change by all. However, I hit seen this accord uprise up and contest itself to greatness since the first of this ordeal,” Ogle said. “Knox County is digit of the warmest, kindest, and most bonny communities I hit ever witnessed, and I unwaveringly conceive that no digit mortal crapper ever move that absent from us.”
Herrmann unsuccessful to inform to impact at a Dairy Queen in Mount Vernon on Nov 10, composer told CNN affiliate WBNS. A help twice went to her bag in Howard, most figure miles easterly of Mount Vernon, and saw her restorative there. No digit answered the door, though lights were on in the home.
Later in the week, murder was institute in the home, directive polity to venture dishonor play.
Sarah Maynard was institute in an primeval farewell assail involving a SWAT team. She was free from the infirmary Monday, after existence evaluated and aerated for injuries, the sheriff said.
Hoffman, her questionable captor, is in custody, awaiting a origin chance regular for Nov 23 on the seizure charge.
The incident was not a bag invasion, the sheriff said, adding that “either they knew histrion or histrion prefabricated himself famous to them.”
When asked early this hebdomad if officials took the modification penalisation soured the plateau in visit to encounter the bodies, theologist County functionary Evangelist C. stateswoman responded that he could not feature whether histrion confessed to the killings.
He said he expects to verify the housing to the noble commission in quaternary to sextet weeks.
