A Kentucky woman has been charged with the death of a missing woman since the spring, whose remains may have been found last week.
Danelle Nicole Powell, 33, of Somerset, was arrested on Thursday on a murder charge, media reports said.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office announced that investigators thought that bones found on a county road last week were similar to LeeAnna Brumley, who was 25 when she was last seen in May. The remains were sent to the office of a forensic pathologist for identification.
The sheriff's statement raises further arrests.
According to the Commonwealth newspaper, Lt. Bobby Jones, a senior investigator, told a press conference that Brumley and Powell were staying at the same residence at Science Hill. He added that Brumley had been taken out of the residence and into a rural area of the county where the detectives believe she was shot, beaten on the head with a hatchet and burned.
Jones said the investigators thought she was killed at a location on May 22 before her body was brought to the place where the remains were found.
