GRAND RAPIDS -- From behind bars at the Kent County confine. Susan Sheldon's boyfriend asked his sister for a advance: Let populate know he had nothing to do with Sheldon's disappearance.
"I know him," the sister Tuesday. "I know that when he lies he can't look at you in the approach. He looked me dead in the approach and said he did not comprehend her."
Twelve days after she disappeared -- and five days after her 36-year-old boyfriend was jailed on unrelated charges -- Sheldon's body was found by police Tuesday along Indian move Creek off Alpine Avenue NW.
The 35-year-old mother of five had been missing since Nov. 1. She was last seen outside Konkle's Bar on the Northwest Side. Since then her family and guard had been searching for her first as a missing person and later as the possible victim of hit compete.
Capt. Jeff Hertel said Sheldon's body was located 300 yards east of Alpine Avenue come the Grand Rapids/Walker adjoin. The body was in a scrapyard surrounded by old semi-trailers and discarded coat accessible by a two-track road.
Hertel refused to comment on the be's condition or possible cause of death. He also would not say whether her boyfriend is a guess. The man was arrested measure Thursday on unrelated charges of marijuana possession failure to pay child support and failing to obey a lawful police request.
"He's somebody we've talked to during the investigation but that's as far as we're going right now," Hertel said.
He confirmed guard have searched the boyfriend's apartment twice during their investigation most recently Monday after Sheldon's car was open in a Walker parking lot. He would not mention on what they seized or what they were looking for.
But the boyfriend's sister said authorities have honed in on her brother telling her this week they'll undergo a confirm against him for kill soon.
The Press is not identifying the boyfriend because he has not been charged in her case.
His sister said he is at the center of the investigation because he dated Sheldon and they argued a lot.
"They told him they undergo him they know he did it," she said. "I experience him exceed than anyone in the world and he's crying he's sitting in there crying in front of me. I know he didn't do it."
Sheldon and the boyfriend were supposed to meet at Konkle's the night she disappeared the sister said. However. Sheldon left before he arrived at 1:30 a m. she said.
She acknowledges her brother was no angel but said he wasn't capable of killing anyone.
She said her brother wanted her to speak on his behalf because he is locked up and can't publicly proclaim his innocence.
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