Overview
- State officials confirmed Monday that the remains are 16-year-old Shayln Shantel Harvey, and deputies have opened a homicide investigation.
- An autopsy has been completed, but investigators have not released a cause of death pending the medical examiner’s final report.
- Deputies found the remains Friday during a search at 355 Offutt Drive in Big Chimney, using cadaver dogs from West Virginia Search and Rescue.
- James Warren Truman, 52, was arrested May 8 on counts of incest and sexual abuse by a person in a position of trust, and he has not been charged in Harvey’s death.
- Harvey was last seen May 2 and reported missing May 4, and authorities say she lived at the Offutt Drive home with her mother and stepfather.