After 25 long years, the husband of Melissa Wolfenbarger, an Atlanta mother who went missing on Thanksgiving 1998, has been apprehended.
When she vanished, she was just 21 years old. A dismembered head was discovered in a garbage bag in April 1999,
and in June, investigators supposedly recovered other remains, including legs, arms, and feet, but no body. At first, they were thought to belong to a male.
Christopher Wolfenbarger, Melissa’s husband, never informed relatives that he hadn’t seen her or reported her missing until January 2000. The couple have two kids together.
The results of the tests that verified Melissa’s identity did not come back until March 2003. An unexpected turn of events occurred in 2003 when Melissa’s father, Carl Patton Jr., was also convicted of the “Flint River Murders,
” a series of murders that occurred in 1977 and claimed the lives of Fred Wyatt, Betty Jo Ephlin, Liddie Matthews Evans, and Joe Cleveland. Following the testimony of his wife Norma,
