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Body of missing 23-year-old Alabama woman Karen Deann Hollis found by family and friends as man, 44, charged with corpse abuse
Karen Deann Hollis, 23, vanished from the Georgetown Apartments in Northport, Alabama on 8 May after texting her boyfriend Zackary Slaughter that she was going to the store for a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
Her family and friends launched a search in Greene County based on information from an electronic device and discovered her body on Saturday.
Randall Lendell Dejourney, 44, has been charged with abuse of a corpse and booked into Tuscaloosa County Jail on $15,000 bond.
Foul play is suspected and the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit is continuing to investigate; an autopsy is pending to establish cause and manner of death.
Hollis had a medical condition that impaired her judgment. Her sister Brandy said the family is devastated and struggling to eat or sleep.