PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - A former sheriff’s office employee in the Florida Panhandle has been arrested on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of a private investigator.
The Pensacola News Journal reports that 40-year-old Ashley McArthur was arrested Thursday after police found 33-year-old Taylor Wright’s body in a wooded area.
Wright was a private investigator and former police officer in Jacksonville, North Carolina. She had been missing since Sept. 7.
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Deputies in Escambia County, Florida found Wright’s body in Pensacola.
Pensacola Police Department spokesman Mike Wood told the newspaper that the women knew each other, but he would not elaborate.
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