Popular Georgia bookstore owner kidnapped by employee..found dead in creek

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https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article272822720.html

A man is in custody after he was accused of kidnapping his boss, killing her and throwing her in a Georgia river, news outlets report. Erica Atkins, 40, was first reported missing early in the morning March 5, The Eatonton Messenger reported.

Ten hours later, a fisherman called the Jones County Sheriff’s Office to report that he had seen a body while fishing on Cedar Creek. As deputies responded to the body in the creek, a report went out about a possible kidnapping in Locust Grove, about 40 miles southwest, The Eatonton Messenger reported.

Officials determined the body in the river and the missing person were both Atkins, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills told the Union Recorder. Locust Grove Police Chief Derrick Austin told The Eatonton Messenger one of Atkins’ employees, 38-year-old Romero Johnson of Norman, Oklahoma, had been taken into custody. Austin told the news outlet Johnson and Atkins were “friends and coworkers.” Locust Grove police told the Union

Recorder they believe Johnson kidnapped and killed Atkins at her home before driving her body through multiple counties headed east. They accused Johnson of then dumping her body in Cedar Creek along the highway.

Read more at: https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article272822720.html#storylink=cpy

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