Authorities Identify Remains As Mother Of Three
Last updated Friday, October 10, 2008 6:16 PM CDT in News
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSONVILLE -- Authorities have identified a body found last month in Jacksonville as that of a White County mother of three who was reported missing a year ago.
Police found the remains after a Faulkner County jail inmate charged with capital murder in another case provided information that led Jacksonville police to the body. Through dental records, authorities were able to identify the woman as Sandra Givens, 32.
Faulkner County Sheriff Karl Byrd said Thursday inmate Ronald Dale Charles, 31, of Cabot provided the information. Charles told police he may have been involved in up to 15 killings in Arkansas and two other states, Byrd said. Police are investigating his claims.
However, another man was charged in Givens' death the day after her body was discovered. Jacksonville police arrested George Alan Smith, 33. Smith worked at Wright's Cabinets, a manufacturing plant a few feet from where Givens' body was found.
Givens' mother, Michelle Reese of Judsonia, filed a missing-person report Oct. 22, 2007, with the White County sheriff's office, saying Givens had lived in Arizona and may have returned there. Reese said she last saw her daughter Oct. 6, 2007, headed for Little Rock.
Charles is in jail without bond on two counts of capital murder in the April 9 beating deaths of cousins Lonnie Franklin Brock, 62, and Bobby Don Brock, 45, who lived near Vilonia. Troy Allen Crook, 29, of Jacksonville faces the same charges in the double slaying, and also is in jail.
Smith and Wright's Cabinets President Bobby Morden are listed on Faulkner County court documents as potential prosecution witnesses in the case against Charles and Crook.
Faulkner County Sheriff's Lt. Matt Rice said he doesn't believe Smith was involved in the cousins' killings.
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