Arrest Made In Connection With Healdton Murder

Chickasaw Lighthorse Police were dispatched for a welfare check on Cynthia Pace in a Healdton apartment and found a body in the bedroom. Officers arrested Elmer Hood, 53, at the scene and booked him into the Carter County Jail for desecration of a human corpse, obstruction of an investigation, and resisting arrest. The investigation is continuing, and there could be more charges.