(1) How Unsolved Missing Person Cases Are Solved (Pt. 1)

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78. Testimony begins in homicide case involving missing Battle Creek woman yet to be found

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Testimony begins in homicide case involving missing Battle Creek woman yet to be found
By Ryan Boldrey | [e-mail]


BATTLE CREEK, MI — Preliminary testimony began Tuesday in the homicide case involving the boyfriend of a missing Battle Creek woman presumed dead.

Derek Depree Horton, 26, was charged June 27 with killing his 27-year-old girlfriend Amber Griffin, who he had reported missing to the Battle Creek police three days earlier. Griffin still has not been found by police or heard from by family members or friends, according to police.

“I have to prove she is dead,” Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert said at one point. “There’s no body.”

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Horton appeared Tuesday, Jan. 19 in front of Calhoun County District Judge Tracie Tomak via Zoom from the county jail, where he has been held without bond since late June.

Griffin’s mother, Carmen Griffin, was the first of five witnesses to testify in the matter, saying she last saw her daughter the night of June 22 when she met her at a Battle Creek gas station to fill up her car with her gas.

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