A person has been arrested after offering police with surveillance footage that he didn't know recorded him dragging a dull lady’s physique by way of his residence.
William Redden, 51, allegedly wrapped the lifeless physique of Stephanie Shenefield in a sheet and dragged it to his automobile, then transported it to a ditch the place he threw it, based on the Manatee County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Shenefield, a 38-year-old mom of two, took an Uber to Redden’s home at 1.20am on June 3, mentioned investigators. It's unclear how she died someday that night time inside the house.
Redden is accused of tossing Shenefield’s physique as an alternative of calling for assist.
‘William Redden does nothing about it,’ acknowledged Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells. ‘He doesn’t name 911, he doesn’t name authorities, he doesn’t name anybody.’
Redden, an alleged drug supplier and felon convicted eight instances, advised authorities that Shenefield stayed in a single day at his Florida residence and left the next morning.
Investigators requested Redden if they might take footage from surveillance cameras inside and outdoors his residence. Redden gave his consent, saying that the cameras had been merely a ‘stay monitoring’ system and didn't document inside his residence, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
‘He tells them they don't document contained in the residence. He was improper,’ mentioned Wells. ‘Fortunately he’s ignorant and didn’t know that. As a result of it labored for us.’
The footage recorded the moments main as much as Shenefield’s loss of life and supplied clues as to how her stays wound up at a ditch in Palmetto.
Redden was seen within the clip ‘dragging her lifeless physique all through the home’ and placing it in his car, then driving off, based on Wells.
Shenefield was reported lacking on June 5, after not exhibiting as much as a live performance on Friday and never going to work.
4 days later, two individuals strolling their canine discovered a ‘badly decomposed’ physique later recognized as Shenefield, in a 12-foot-deep ditch close to railroad tracks, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Redden has been charged with abuse of a corpse, possession of an altered firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon. He may face further prices.
‘William Redden is a chunk of crap, that’s what he's. He had the chance to name regulation enforcement, to name 911, to attempt to save her. He may have finished a whole lot of issues, however that’s not his character,’ Wells mentioned.
‘The one factor he considered was making an attempt to eliminate the proof that was in his automobile – that was a human being; that was somebody that was really beloved on this neighborhood.’
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