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Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence.
The mystery surrounding the fate of a Missouri woman who vanished over the summer has finally been solved—but the details about what really happened to Cassidy Rainwater are more ghastly than anyone could have imagined.
Police say the 33-year-old’s remains were found in a freezer at the home of one of the men accused of kidnapping her in Windyville, an unincorporated Ozarks community about 160 miles from Kansas City.
That man, James Phelps, had initially been arrested and charged with kidnapping Rainwater in September, along with another man named Timothy Norton, a trucker who had been living on Phelps’ property. Police have now upped the charges against both men to first-degree murder.
The new charges come after remains recovered at Phelps’ property just days after his arrest were positively identified as Rainwater’s.
