Multiple law enforcement agencies investigating 2 deaths in Newton County - WLBT

NEWTON CO., Miss. (WLBT) - Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating the deaths of two females in Newton County.

Gloves were the first piece of the puzzle to suggest that the bodies found Friday night in the Conehatta community were discovered on tribal land just outside the community.

After an hour of trekking up and down the sparsely populated McDill Road, someone led WLBT to an even rockier path, littered with trash, furniture, and three pools of blood.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation — the lead agency in this case — has not disclosed where those two bodies were found or anything else in the case.

The only information coming from the Choctaw Police Department suggests the bodies were found on tribal land.

They haven’t said how the two people died.

But resident Willie McGee, who lives less than a mile from that suspected crime scene, says people have already started talking.

“My cousin, he was telling me,” said Willie McGee. “He was up there moving the rocks, and he told me, ‘Y’all didn’t hear about those people getting killed up thereabout?’ I said ‘Nah, I didn’t hear that.’”

McGee says the discovery of those two bodies is disturbing to him but not unusual for the area.

“Every time somebody gets shot or killed or something, they always drop them off in our neighborhood,” said McGee. “It’s been happening for years.”

WLBT also discovered something else that might hold a clue for law enforcement. What looks like a trail camera mounted to a tree, seeing everything that goes in and out.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the investigations: the names of the victims, the manner of death.

In fact, they’re not even calling it a double homicide at this point, though people who live on McDill Road, and the area, are saying that’s what they’re hearing. We are going to continue to follow this case and have the latest developments as these state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies release them.

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