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Missing persons case in South Carolina leads to body, murder arrest

LAURENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — A missing persons case led to the discovery of a body at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday on a Laurens County, South Carolina, property and the arrest of a man in Colorado.

The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a property at the 7700 block of Neely Ferry Road for a missing persons report involving Terry Ann Chermak and William Loyd Cagle.

Cagle, 48, was arrested Tuesday evening in Denver, Colorado on a murder charge, the sheriff’s office said.

The identity of the victim has not been released.

The Greenville Police Department said early Tuesday that they had taken a missing persons report involving Chermak, who had been missing from downtown Greenville, South Carolina.

Investigators said a concerned friend reported Chermak missing.

Police said their investigation resulted in the case being turned over to the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office.