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 Police found the body of 49-year-old Beverly Carter shortly after
midnight on Tuesday in a Little Rock suburb about 25 miles (40 km)
north of the area where she was reported missing, Pulaski County
Sheriff's Office spokesman Carl Minden said.
Before going missing, she told associates she was meeting a possible
buyer at a property in Scott.
A 33-year-old Arkansas prison parolee whom police arrested hours
earlier after an intensive manhunt on suspicion of being responsible
for the disappearance would now face a capital murder charge, Minden
said.
Aaron Lewis admitted to the kidnapping after police questioning but
would not divulge Carter's whereabouts, Minden said. Police
following other leads found her body on a property on Highway 5 in
Cabot.
Lewis, whose name is spelled "Aaron" and "Arron" on different
government records, remains in jail and is to appear in a Pulaski
County court on Tuesday, Minden said.
Lewis, whose picture had been widely circulated, was named in an
arrest warrant issued on Sunday. He was taken into custody in
suburban Little Rock after office workers spotted him at a bus stop
and alerted police.
He fled to a nearby apartment complex but was soon arrested, the
sheriff's office said.
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Carter's husband alerted authorities after she failed to return home
on Thursday night. Over the weekend, more than 200 volunteers helped
deputies comb the area near the house where her car was found.
Arkansas officials said Lewis was on parole for theft convictions in
Arkansas and also had a criminal history in Utah and Kansas.
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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