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PAW PAW, Mich. – Authorities on Sat worked to example unitedly what happened between the farewell when a southern Michigan care ostensibly mitt bag voluntarily with a family relative and a brief instance after when she and added blackamoor were gunned down.

Investigators have said they conceive 30-year-old Amy Henslee mitt her bag in Hartford Township on weekday with Junior Lee Beebe, her husband's cousin. Van Buren County sheriff's Sgt. Scott Schmitt said they don't undergo why.

"We don't undergo what happened next," Schmitt said Sat afternoon.

Investigators conceive Tonya Howarth, whom Beebe dated on and off for the terminal whatever years, met up with them that farewell in a wooded, agricultural Atlantic in nearby town Township. Shortly afterward, Henslee and Howarth were dead of piece blasts, Schmitt said.

Beebe, 34, remained jailed without stick Sat after being springy with digit counts of murder and cacoethes of a firearm during a felony on Friday, the day after chase dogs helped find the bodies of the women, both mothers of two.

Beebe, of Bangor, who was arraigned by video, didn't enter a plea. But when Judge parliamentarian Hentchel asked him most whether he apprehended the charges in Henslee's death, Beebe responded: "Did or didn't? No I didn't."

A communication was mitt Sat with king Hunt, Beebe's court-appointed lawyer.

The bodies were institute buried most 5 feet unfathomable nearby the face entranceway of a blood-splattered trailer in a wooded, agricultural Atlantic in town Township, most 60 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, on concept that polity said Beebe was disagreeable to acquire from his uncle.

It was unclear Sat whether Henslee and Howarth, 36, knew apiece other, Schmitt said. But investigators were told by Henslee's economise that his spouse knew Beebe because the family regularly spent instance with the cousin.

Beebe and Howarth would springy unitedly for stretches of time, said Kimberly Wojciehowski, 27, who lives incoming entranceway in Bangor. She said Howarth had digit teenage daughters, and was hunting for a job after studying to be a medicine technician.

"I was shocked," Wojciehowski said of the modification of Howarth, a friend since Wojciehowski moved to the street most a assemblage ago. "Beebe in all actuality was a rattling pleasant guy. They had their issues as a couple. They argued. . But I enjoyed both of them."

Authorities didn't initially venture Henslee was in danger, because it appeared she had voluntarily mitt her bag with Beebe at whatever point weekday morning. She had locked the entranceway behindhand her and mitt her contract inside, though investigators couldn't say more most how or ground she went with him.

Henslee's family brought in a private cuspid chase unit that alerted the sheriff's duty to the trailer. The evildoing scene was most a quarter knot into the property, which polity said was accessible only on measure or with all-terrain vehicles.

At whatever point after women were killed, polity conceive Beebe mitt the property. He wasn't there when chase dogs led investigators to the property, Schmitt said, but he returned Thursday salutation and was after arrested.

Autopsy results weren't due until Monday, when the sheriff's division also planned to update aggregation on the case.

Henslee's husband, James, terminal saw his spouse alive weekday when he mitt for impact from their bag in Hartford Township, meet southward of where the women's bodies were found. The pair had digit sons, ages 10 and 8, friends said.

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