A young woman from Ohio who vanished last week was later found dead inside an abandoned home, and now police have charged her “former friend” with murder.
According to People, 19-year-old Blake Grewell, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of 20-year-old Brianna Ratliff, who went missing on April 15, police said.
Ratliff was last seen heading to a Pit Stop gas station around 7 P.M. A regional search effort was sparked to find the missing woman, and her body was subsequently found by searchers and cadaver dogs in an abandoned home on Chestnut Street last Sunday.
The next day, the Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office took Blake Grewell into custody.
Grewell has been formally charged with aggravated murder, an unclassified felony. He is being held on a $1 million bond and he has not entered a plea. Officials said that more charges could be filed after the case is reviewed by the Coshocton County Prosecutor’s Office.
Credit Coshocton County Sheriffs Office
