Ore City Woman Charged with Murder
Posted/updated on: September 1, 2011 at 3:48 pm
GILMER — An Ore City woman was charged with murder Tuesday evening in connection with a body that was found in a burned out vehicle in Upshur County. That’s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. Upshur County Sheriff Anthony Betterton said 43-year-old Sharon Stanley Maxwell was arrested around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday after investigators determined that the case was “suspicious in nature.”
Betterton said authorities were dispatched to a residence on Texas 155 north of Gilmer around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday in connection with a vehicle fire. They discovered a body in the vehicle after it was extinguished. Upshur County spokesman Freddie Fitzgerald said due to the condition of the body, authorities were unable to positively identify the victim. Justice of the Peace Lyle Potter pronounced the victim dead at the scene and an autopsy was ordered from Southwest Forensic Center in Dallas. Maxwell remained jailed on $750,000 bond, charged with murder.
