A sad turn in a missing person investigation as Lancaster Police discovered human remains inside a local home, leading to the arrest of a 58-year-old woman. According to NBC4i, Katharine Arnold of Lancaster was taken into custody yesterday on a charge of felony abuse of a corpse following a search of a residence on Lynwood Lane.
The police were carrying out an inquiry into a person reported missing when they made the grisly find, which has jarred the quiet Lancaster community, WBNS report, adding that the incident has sparked further investigation. However, the identity of the deceased has not been disclosed. Police officers secured the area as part of the ongoing probe, with Arnold now held at the Fairfield County jail.
This incident surfaced after detectives executed a search warrant around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a search that was part of the broader effort to locate a community member who had vanished, leading to an arrest on the following day. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the exact nature of Arnold’s relationship, if any, to the discovered remains is yet to be clarified by authorities.
