GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A man has been indicted in the strangulation murder of a former friend, who disappeared seven years ago.
Channel 2′s Tom Regan learned the man was already in jail for allegedly assaulting his wife.
His wife has accused him of nearly choking her to death earlier this month. Now he’s accused of killing a friend.
The sister of Samuel Waters said their 7-year wait for justice has finally arrived.
In 2015 Waters and a friend, Jeffrey Moulder, went to buy beer. Waters was never seen again. Now Moulder is accused of killing him.
“We have known all of this time it was him that did this,” Waters’ sister Consuella Acosta said. “It’s just a sense of relief for us.”
Prosecutors said a half dozen witnesses told investigators that Moulder admitted to the strangulation murder and to taking the body to a house on Lake Lanier.
“There’s also an allegation he attempted to burn the body and ultimately dismembered him and disposed of the body in an unknown location,” Gwinnett County Deputy District Attorney Brandon Delfunt said.
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The prosecutor said Moulder killed his friend in a dispute over a former girlfriend. The location of his remains is still a mystery.
“Going through all of this, still not having his body to have a funeral or memorial, we haven’t had any closure at all,” Acosta said.
Moulder is already in jail, accused of choking his wife, Maranda Grizzle, earlier this month. Regan spoke with her by phone on Friday.
“Is this a relief to you?” Regan asked Grizzle.
“Yes, because I know I am safe and I know I can keep my daughter safe,” Grizzle said.
Acosta told Regan that her brother was a kind and generous young man, murdered just before the birth of his daughter.
Now, she wants his accused killer to spend life in prison.
“Without the chance of getting out, to have to suffer for what he did to my brother and taking him away from his daughter, his fiancee and from his family,” Acosta said.
The deputy DA said Moulder still must be arraigned on the murder charge. A date for that hearing hasn’t been set.
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