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Marcus Brooks ( Buchanan Co Sheriff's Office)
(KNZA)--A second person has been charged in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found inside a duffel bag near Faucett, Missouri last year.
KQ2-TV reports Buchanan County Prosecuting Attorney Ronald Holliday announced Friday that 29-year-old Marcus Brooks has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Ariel Starcher.
23-year-old Taylor Stoughton was previously charged with second-degree murder in the case.
Starcher's body was found bound and gagged inside a duffel bag along Vincent Road in rural Buchanan County in February 2020.
A medical autopsy showed that she died as a result of suffocation along with a fractured cervical vertebra.
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