Three arrested, charged with first-degree murder in Baxter County case By Region 8 Newsdesk | December 17, 2020 at 9:40 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 5:08 PM
BAXTER COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man found dead inside a burned car.
The sheriff’s office said the Arkansas State Medical Examiner’s Office in Little Rock identified the victim as 35-year-old Cody Benjamin Stradford of Mountain Home.
Stradford’s parents filed a missing person report earlier this month, which indicated he had not been seen or heard from in several days.
Law enforcement with the Benton County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI arrested the fourth person in connection to Stradford’s death.
Photos: (from left) Ryan James Lindsey, Skylar Whitney Brazil and Allison June Beckham Cunningham
Three people have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after the discovery of a body Wednesday in a burned car south of Mountain Home.
Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery says the three charged are 27-year-old Ryan James Lindsey, 38-year-old Skylar Whitney Brazil and 42-year-old Allison June Beckham Cunningham, all of Mountain Home.
Montgomery says about 10 Wednesday morning, deputies responded to a 911 call and located a vehicle just off Old Arkana Road and what appeared to be human remains inside. Montgomery says it appears the vehicle had been there for several days.
Photos: Amanda Maggard and Joshua Hergesheimer
A couple from West Plains parked down a dead-end road near Walmart with all the windows in the vehicle covered over has been arrested and charged with being in possession of drugs and paraphernalia to use drugs.
On Nov. 16 about 8 p.m., a Mountain Home police officer saw a small pickup parked near the end of Driller’s Road.
The officer reported, as he approached, the female passenger opened the door to the truck and began to get out.
She was identified as 34-year-old Amanda Maggard. The officer asked what Maggard and her male companion, 32-year-old Joshua Hergesheimer, were doing parked on the road with the vehicle’ windows covered.