Years after her disappearance, Erica Parsons' parents charged with murder
Almost seven years after their adopted 13-year-old daughter was last seen alive, Sandy and Casey Parsons face murder charges in her death.
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Erica Parsons was reported missing by a relative in Rowan County in 2013. The relative told investigators she hadn’t seen Parsons since November 2011.
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Authorities were long suspicious of Sandy and Casey Parsons.
"It's been a long time in coming," Rowan County Sheriff Kevin Auten said in announcing that the couple would face charges of first-degree murder, felony child abuse inflicting serious injury, felony concealment of a death and felony obstruction of justice.
Testimony at their trial revealed a pattern of abuse, and Erica's autopsy found she had multiple "blunt force injuries over a prolonged period, and the growth deficit and low bone density are consistent with malnourishment."
In the week prior to her disappearance, Erica's siblings described her as looking grey with sunken eyes, smelling bad with open, oozing cuts, very weak and complaining of not being able to breathe, the autopsy report said.
The Parsons adopted Erica – her biological mother was a relative – when she was a baby. She lived with the family in Salisbury from 2000 until the time of her death.
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