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Unfortunately, the discovery of the deceased Murrays were only two of the five bodies to turn up in that same week.
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Four homicide investigations and one suspicious death investigation across Burke County has led to five bodies and eight arrests in the past week.
For tens of thousands of hours each year, people struggling with mental health and substance use problems fill UNC Health Blue Ridge’s emergency department. Now, Burke County is moving forward with plans for a 16-bed crisis center designed to ease that burden and provide an adequate alternative to the hospital and the jail.
In the early hours of Monday morning, around 3:17 a.m., the Burke County Sheriff’s Office responded to a suspicious death on Barus Pond Loop in Valdese.
Two arrests resulted in the seizure of more than 27 pounds of methamphetamine last week, after Diamond Sharell Lipscomb and Jennifer Nicole Halstead each received trafficking charges following traffic stops.
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