Green Beret murdered: Shana Cloud, wife of Clinton Bonnell, charged in his death investigation after dismembered body found

Vitville, North Carolina – Beret’s disappearance in North Carolina, Clinton “Clint” Bonel is now an investigation of a murder.

The person who faces charges in the case is his wife, Shanna Claude, according to the Campeland County Office. She was arrested and charged with charges two months after his loss, and after weeks of confirmation of DNA a The body without ends found in a pond The remains of Bonel were. The cloud was accused of first -degree death and hiding death.

During its first appearance in the court on Monday, new and enormous details of the court documents were revealed. The provincial prosecutor says they do not have Clinton Bonel, including his head.

“It is a horrific state and a terrible state found. It was just a trunk. It had no legs, arms or head when it was found,” said Billy West, Campeland County.

Investigators say they have video evidence on the cloud in the area where the Bonel trunk was recovered.

DA’s office also revealed that Bonel’s girlfriend is the one who made the second call to Examination of well -being on Bonel At his home on January 28. The first call came in the morning at the request of Methodist University when it did not appear in the classroom.

According to the details of the Cloud hearing on Monday, Bonnell went to the lawyer’s office on January 27 to search for divorce. He claimed that he told his girlfriend that he was preparing to end his marriage and that he also told his wife.

It is the last time it was seen alive,

Investigators say they believed that Claude opened fire and killed her husband the next day inside the couple’s house.

“I want you to know that Mrs. Claude is innocent and looks forward to her day in court,” said Claude lawyer, James Macray Junior, after her first appearance.

As it was revealed in court on Monday, the Cloud was a mobile nurse, and she worked even in the Ministry of Reform in Virginia.

The cloud is held without support and faces the death penalty in this case.

Who is missing to kill

According to information from the Campeland Sharif County Office, here is a limited timetable for how the case will be revealed and led to the charge of arrest and murder against Bonel’s wife, Shanna Claude.

Representatives say that the phone call to verify social welfare is what began to investigate the case of the missing person who quickly turned into an investigation into a murder.

Clinton “Clint”, 50 years old, was last seen in the Gray Kreik area of ​​Camberland on January 27. He was a student at Methodist University and registered in the doctor’s assistant program. When he failed to attend the morning semester on January 28, an employee from the university called an honorable office and asked for a well -known check in his home in Weaitville.

Despite seeing his car, book bag, and other personal things at home, the deputies said that they spoke to the cloud and allegedly told them that she had not seen Bonel since the day before.

Sherif’s office later says on the same day, and they received another call requesting a well -being at Bonel. This is when he was officially reported, and the case was appointed to the main management crime unit.

Clinton Bonel

Two days later, on January 30, the case was reset to the killing unit. Sharif’s office did not specify the reason for his reassurance to the killing investigators.

On February 1, investigators developed information that led them to expand the investigation into Virginia, where the cloud owns property. While they were in Virginia, they carried out inspection orders on a Cloud vehicle, rental properties, and the cell phone. Virgin State Police provided assistance in the implementation of the plural and evidence order.

The evidence related to the investigation was restored to the Campeland Province. Multiple inspection orders were obtained in Camberland Province and were implemented to extract information from Cloud devices, which included digital data, cell phone records, video clips, digital devices and more.

The collected and used data was analyzed to develop a timetable for events not only the surrounding of Bonel’s disappearance, but its whereabouts before his disappearance.

On Monday, February 10, the news of the eyewitnesses ABC11 spoke Bonel’s sister Whoever said that his disappearance was out of his character for him, especially since he had upcoming exams and was preparing and studying for them.

“I know what he was doing on the day he disappeared and he was putting plans for his life, and studying exams the next day. I mean, all the signs indicate that he does not disappear on his own.”

911 call: “the body without ends” in a pool

On February 25, Sharif’s office received a call about Human residue in the body of water In the 4200 mass of genetic road. Because of the state of the remains, determining the identity was not possible.

DNA was sent from the remains to the North Carolina state laboratory. Then this DNA profile was sent to the AFMES medical examiner system to compare it with the DNA in the previous green hats file.

On Friday, March 28th, AFMES confirmed that the DNA collected is Bonel. Then the cloud was arrested and charged with killing.

Methodist University issued a statement after learning the news: “We are grateful to our MU community, a police in the campus, and the partnership with the application of the local law who work with the individual family. Our ideas with them during this difficult time.”

Anyone with more information about this investigation is urged to call the sergeant. J You don’t have to reveal your identity.

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