Police recovered the remains of missing Florida Panhandle woman Latonya Baxter on Sunday evening after a traveler happened upon her body in a rural area just over the Alabama border, bringing an end to a 15-day search effort. A Pensacola Police Department spokeswoman said that the Escambia County Sheriff's Office in Alabama officially located the woman around 6 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area off Highway 113. Forty-year-old Baxter had been reported missing on September 12th. Baxter's roommate, 38-year-old Giles Curt Jones, was arrested three days later on a premeditated first-degree murder charge after Pensacola police found blood spatter in the trunk of Jones' car, and in three places inside the home they shared.

Police recovered the remains of missing Florida Panhandle woman Latonya Baxter on Sunday evening after a traveler happened upon her body in a rural area just over the Alabama border, bringing an end to a 15-day search effort. A Pensacola Police Department spokeswoman said that the Escambia County Sheriff's Office in Alabama officially located the woman around 6 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area off Highway 113. Forty-year-old Baxter had been reported missing on September 12th. Baxter's roommate, 38-year-old Giles Curt Jones, was arrested three days later on a premeditated first-degree murder charge after Pensacola police found blood spatter in the trunk of Jones' car, and in three places inside the home they shared.

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