Newly released warrants provide more detail in search for missing Holly Springs mom
New search warrants released Friday in the ongoing investigation of a missing Holly Springs mother believed dead are providing additional insight into the disappearance of the woman and investigators' effort to find out if her ex-boyfriend was linked to it.
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Monica Moynan, 23, was reported missing by her mother in July, but the woman told police that she hadn't seen her daughter in person since March. Moynan also hadn't shown up for work at a Fuquay-Varina restaurant for months by the time investigators started looking into the case.
Police now believe the woman is dead and that she was a victim of homicide.
No arrests have been made but her former boyfriend, Brian Sluss, is considered a person of interest, court documents show.
Previously released search warrants as well as the newly released documents show how Sluss appears to be a central figure in the case.
In the new batch of warrants, an investigator spoke to Sluss, who told police he had not seen her since June 20.
When asked what was going on, Sluss said Moynan had become a heroin addict and on June 20, he received a text from her with a picture of one of their sleeping daughters with a cryptic message of "I dan't do this anymore."
But police have concluded that Sluss was the last person to see the woman and, according to the warrants, he failed to report her missing, lied about her whereabouts, began using her phone and social media accounts to make it appear to family and friends that Moynan was alive and all was well with her.
That "has made Brian a primary person of interest in the disappearance and murder of Monica," says one of the warrants.
An ex-wife of Sluss also figures prominently in the new batch of warrants.
Jarlyn Sluss had been in contact with Brian Sluss on several occasions since April 2019 and he went to her house on April 19 after he was confronted by the apartment property manager when he was found inside Moynan's apartment, according to the documents.
On July 23, Brian Sluss spoke to a Holly Springs investigator in a call that apparently rattled Sluss.
He apparently called his ex-wife and asked her for a "worst-case scenario with Monica."
That question made it "click" in her mind that "something might have happen(ed) to Moniica and asks will they ever find her and Brian responds, 'No.'"
According to the warrants, investigators said Jarlyn Sluss had failed to provide information to investigators about numerous conversations with her ex-husband via texts, calls and Skype.
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