Missing elderly woman found ‘encased in concrete’ underneath a shed weeks after she was last seen having dinner with her handyman: Police

A Washington pistillate who went missing aft reportedly having meal with her handyman was found underneath a shed successful different town.

Marcia Norman, 82, was past seen by her household connected April 1 and reported missing a fewer days later, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. Police said that Norman reportedly had meal with her handyman, 47-year-old Jeffrey Zizz, connected April 1 and was not heard from again.

When constabulary arrived astatine Norman’s location successful Tenino, a metropolis immoderate 75 miles southwest of Seattle, the authorities of the location led them to judge that she had “left abruptly.” Meanwhile, Zizz reportedly near Washington authorities successful a friend’s pickup truck, but was arrested connected April 6 connected a erstwhile sentencing violation.

But earlier helium left, Zizz’s neighbors seemingly noticed that helium had built a shed connected a spot successful Olympia — the time aft Norman was reported missing.

In an update, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office announced that connected April 9, detectives had the country nether the shed excavated. Underneath the shed, they recovered quality remains “partially encased successful concrete.” They identified them the adjacent time — it was Marcia Norman.

After Zizz was arrested successful Montana, helium was extradited backmost to Washington to appear successful court for a kid molestation sentencing usurpation warrant. He remains successful custody without enslaved astatine Thurston County Jail connected those charges. In the meantime, constabulary named Zizz arsenic a idiosyncratic of involvement successful Norman’s case.

Zizz has not been charged with immoderate crimes related to the disappearance oregon decease of Norman. Lieutenant Mike Brooks of the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office told KIRO, a section CBS affiliate, that Zizz was well-known to Norman’s family, saying, “He’s not the mean handyman to this family. He’s a bully household friend, truthful it doesn’t needfully look similar having meal unneurotic would beryllium uncommon.”

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