Boyfriend charged with murder of missing Battle Creek woman
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Boyfriend charged with murder of missing Battle Creek woman
By Ryan Boldrey | rboldrey@mlive.com
Posted Jun 29, 2020; Updated Jun 29, 2020
BATTLE CREEK, MI — The June 22 disappearance of a Battle Creek woman is now being treated as a homicide by police, who have arrested and charged her boyfriend with open murder.
Derek Horton, 25, was arraigned Monday, June 29 in Calhoun County District Court on a single count of open murder in the death of Amber Griffin, who was reported missing a week earlier. He is being held at the Calhoun County Jail without bond.
Horton, according to a news release from the Battle Creek Police Department, was Griffin’s boyfriend.
Griffin’s body is yet to be found, police said.
Griffin was reported missing on June 24 by her mother and Horton, who came into the police station together, Sgt. Joel Case told MLive.
Griffin’s mother reported last seeing her daughter the evening of June 22. Horton, according to Case, said he last saw Griffin around midnight that night at the couple’s Bedford Township home.
As police began to investigate the missing person complaint, numerous inconsistencies were discovered in Horton’s story, Case said.
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