RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Police in North Carolina have found the body of a 26-year-old woman whose boyfriend was charged earlier this month with killing her.
The Apex Police Department said Emily Montgomery’s body was found Saturday in Raleigh, The News & Observer reports.
Jose Carlos Jacome-Granizo, 29, of Raleigh, was arrested on Dec. 10 and charged with first-degree murder in Montgomery’s death.
Montgomery was a single mother who lived in Apex, a town in Wake County. She was reported missing after her family hadn’t seen or heard from her since the night before Thanksgiving.
According to search warrants, Montgomery texted a friend in November that she and her boyfriend were not getting along, One text message said, “It is going to happen he is going to kill me first,” a search warrant said.
Police searched Jacome-Granizo’s Jeep Wrangler and found blood in the front seat, warrants said.
Jacome-Granizo is being held without bond in the Wake County jail.
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