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Monday, January 15, 2007
Charges coming against suspect
By FOSS FARRAR
Staff Writer
A suspect being held in Cowley County Jail is expected to be charged Wednesday in the Jodi Sanderholm disappearance and death, which has been ruled a homicide, a spokeswoman in the Attorney General's Office said today.
The person in jail currently is being held on unrelated charges.
Ashley Anstaett said late this morning she was issuing a media advisory that charges are expected to be filed Wednesday. She declined to say what the suspect would be charged with.
"That will be announced Wednesday," she said.
Sanderholm's car was found Tuesday at the bottom of Cowley Fishing Lake, and her body was found the same day, about eight miles away.
Authorities have confirmed that the body found in rural southeast Cowley County is that of Sanderholm.
"While there is a DNA test being conducted, we are confident that this is Jodi Sanderholm," said Attorney General Paul Morrison in a press release issued Friday afternoon.
Anstaett said today that no more information related to the autopsy was available today.
Sanderholm, a 19-year-old Cowley College student, went missing on Friday, Jan. 5. She was last seen about 1 p.m. that day at the local Subway restaurant.
Police would not say when and how the suspect was taken into custody on unrelated charges. But a local VFW official said he saw the suspect playing bingo Saturday night, Jan. 6, the day after Sanderholm went missing.
The VFW official said another person attending the bingo told him they saw an unmarked police car parked in the post's parking lot. The police car followed the suspect as he drove away.
A memorial service for Sanderholm will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the W.S. Scott Auditorium.
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