5 Charged with First Degree Murder & Kidnapping / N.C.
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By Jesse James DeConto, Staff Writer
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HILLSBOROUGH -- Orange County sheriff's investigators think five young men
abducted Joshua McCabe Bailey, 20, took him to the woods off Twisted Oak
Drive in Chapel Hill, dug a shallow grave and shot him in the head with a 9
mm pistol.
Bailey's family lost contact with him in July, and the sheriff issued at
Silver Alert on Aug. 20 because Bailey suffered from dementia or cognitive
impairment.
Authorities found his body Friday off Big Woods Road in Chatham County.
Two days before the body was found, investigators examined the crime scene
off Twisted Oak Drive and found trash bags that gave off the stench of
decomposing flesh, but they found no body. On Thursday, an informant told
Orange County Investigator Tim Horne that Bailey's body had been moved to a
burial site in Chatham County.
The sheriff's office has charged five young men with first-degree murder and
kidnapping: Brandon Hamilton Greene, 26, of Chapel Hill; Jack "Black Jack"
Johnson II, 19, of Chapel Hill; Ryan Ladar Davis Lee, 20, of Chapel Hill;
Jacob Alexander Maxwell, 18, of Chapel Hill; Brian Gregory Minton, 18, of
Chapel Hill.
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Eight charged in kidnapping, killing of Chapel Hill man
Posted: Today at 4:47 p.m.
Updated: 43 minutes ago
Carrboro, N.C. - Orange County investigators on Monday charged five people
with murder and kidnapping in the death of a missing man whose body was
found Friday.
Three others face lesser charges.
An autopsy determined that Joshua McCabe Bailey, 20, of Chapel Hill, died of
a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Orange County Sheriff's
Office.
Bailey had been missing since August, and his body was found near Jordan
Lake on Friday night.
Five Chapel Hill men are charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping:
a.. Brain Gregory Minton, 28, of 714 Smith Level Road;
b.. Jacob Alexander Maxwell, 18, of Twisted Oak Drive;
c.. Jack Johnson II, 19, of 101 Culbreth Drive;
d.. Brandon Hamilton Greene, 26, of 1103 Sourwood Drive;
e.. Ryan Ladar Davis Lee, 20, also of 1103 Sourwood Drive.
Three people have charged with being accessories after the fact:
a.. Gregory Lee Minton, 41, of 714 Smith Level Road in Chapel Hill;
b.. Mishele Slade Minton, 37, also of 714 Smith Level Road;
c.. and Chris Manley, 23, of 306 Estes Park Apartments, Apt. J-16, in
Carrboro.
Lee, Manley and the elder Mintons remained at large Monday evening.
The five other suspects have been taken into custody.
Bailey's father, Steve, reported his son missing on Aug. 20, and a Silver
Alert - which applies to people with a cognitive impairment - was issued.
Steve Bailey had last seen his son on Weaver Street in Carrboro July 21.
Investigator Tim Horne, with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, conducted
interviews with Bailey's friends and acquaintances and developed leads in
several counties. The State Bureau of Investigation assigned several agents
to the case.
Horne and SBI agents learned that Bailey had been shot and killed and that
his body was buried in a wooded area off Twisted Oak Drive in Orange County.
However, when investigators excavated that site on Sept. 11, they did not
find a body.
Investigators continued interviews that day and by the evening, learned that
Bailey's body had been moved to Chatham County.
SBI agents and sheriff's deputies from Orange and Chatham counties located
the grave site near Jordan Lake the next day. Dr. Billy Oliver, an assistant
professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University, helped to
excavate it.
The human remains found there were taken to the office of the State Chief
Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill. Dental records identified the body as
Bailey's.
The date that Bailey was shot has not been determined, deputies said, and
the investigation was continuing.
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What an unusual crime, so many (alleged) perps, and so ethnically mixed. I
remember the old rule of thumb, that crims usually stuck with their own
ethnic groups in doing the crime, and their victim was usually also the same
ethnicity. Maybe that theory has completely disintegrated (no pun intended)
by this point in time?
What the devil is this murder about do you think? Drugs was first thing
popped into my mind. Just how impaired was the victim, I wonder? And somehow
I'm also wondering if that perp group isn't full of cognitively challenged
individuals too. Seems some of 'em dug up the body and took it elsewhere?
while all the while somebody was reporting each move to the cops? And then
the body-movers left the stinking transport-bags behind, ewww.
jc