Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 10/17/2014
- Missing From:
- Missing From Carlsbad, New Mexico
- Classification:
- Classification Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race Black
- Date of Birth:
- Age:
- Age 42 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male.
- Details of Disappearance:
- A man named Runnels vanished from Carlsbad, New Mexico in October 2014. His bones were found six years later, in April 2020, near a road called the George Shoup Relief Route. Brett Roark was arrested and charged with Runnels’ murder and trying to hide the evidence. Roark says another man, whose name we don’t know, actually shot Runnels at his own house. Roark claims he helped get rid of the body and clean up the mess. Roark is waiting for his trial, and no one else has been charged in this case yet.
- Agency:
- Carlsbad Police Department 575-885-2111
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 10/17/2014