US man dies while discarding body of girlfriend he fatally strangled, officials say
Police found man, who died of a heart attack, next to his girlfriend by abandoned vehicle in wooded area of Alabama
A man recently died in Alabama from a heart attack while trying to discard his girlfriend’s body after fatally strangling her, according to authorities.
At the center of the unusually macabre case was Daniel Robbins, 44, and Jessica Folds, 47.
Chambers county sheriff’s deputies reportedly found Robbins and Folds dead next to each other on the morning of 10 June in a wooded area near an abandoned vehicle in the town of Lanett.
The Chambers sheriff’s office said in a statement that officials sent the bodies to the Alabama department of forensic science for autopsies.
Investigators were subsequently reported to have found that Robbins, described as being from Georgia, and Folds – said to be from Lanett – had been in a relationship before her death. He allegedly killed her before he died while trying to hide her body, according to investigators.
“He died of a heart attack while doing it,” said a local district attorney, Mike Segrest, according to the Alabama news outlet AL.com, which first reported on the findings.
“Their bodies were right there together.”
Segrest said the investigation by local and state law enforcement, combined with autopsy results, determined that Folds “was strangled” – and “it appears [Robbins] was attempting to dispose of [her] body in a remote location” when he died.
Segrest said the truck near the bodies of Robbins and Folds was still running and the driver’s side door was open when deputies arrived to find them.
The tailgate was down, he said to AL.com, and there were drag marks in the dirt into the woods where the couple were found.
Segrest told the outlet that investigators suspected Robbins killed Folds as an act of domestic violence. The prosecutor added that he believed everything had happened the previous night, citing the fact that the truck was still running.
Local news outlets reported that Folds was the mother of three adult sons. An obituary said she “touched the lives of many with her heart of gold, deep love for everyone, and a smile that brightened the world”.
Robbins’s survivors included a daughter, according to his obituary.
About the Author
A man recently died in Alabama from a heart attack while trying to discard his girlfriend’s body after fatally strangling her, according to authorities. Meanwhile at the center of the unusually macabre case was Daniel Robbins, 44, and Jessica Folds, 47.
Daniel Robbins is in a tough spot here, curious how they navigate it.
So the bottom line is the Chambers sheriff’s office said in a statement that officials sent the bodies to the Alabama department of forensic science for autopsies. Wonder how this will land.
The fact that investigators were subsequently reported to have found that Robbins, described as being from Georgia, and Folds – said to be from Lanett – had been in a relationship before her death really puts things into perspective.
Mike Segrest has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
The bigger issue here is a man recently died in Alabama from a heart attack while trying to discard his girlfriend’s body after fatally strangling her, according to authorities. That changes the calculation.
The detail about investigators were subsequently reported to have found that Robbins, described as being from Georgia, and Folds – said to be from Lanett – had been in a relationship before her death is something people should sit with.