Authorities said Tuesday that they have found a car stolen from a home on Lake Gaston last week following a home invasion and fatal fire.

The State Bureau of Investigation declined to say where the silver 2011 Mercedes C-300 was found, saying providing more details could hinder the investigation of the crime.

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Authorities said two masked intruders burst into a home on Mulberry Court in Littleton Friday morning and kidnapped 76-year-old Nancy Alford.

One of the intruders drove her to a State Employees' Credit Union branch in Roanoke Rapids and forced her to withdraw money from an ATM, while the second intruder stayed in the home with her husband, John Alford, Warren County Sheriff Johnnie Williams said.

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Investigators comb through the rubble of a burned-out house in Littleton on March 9, 2018, where they say fire was used to conceal evidence of a home invasion and kidnapping. A woman died in the fire, while her husband was able to escape.

Nancy Alford was driven back to the house on Lake Gaston, where the intruders beat up her husband before setting the home ablaze with the couple tied up inside, Williams said.

John Alford, a minister at Sanford Memorial Baptist Church in Brodnax, Va., was able to escape and was airlifted to Duke University Hospital for treatment. His wife didn't make it out of the burning house, however.