Kansas woman wanted for filing bogus murder report with police

By BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times

Posted: July 28, 2009 at 6:46 a.m.

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FAYETTEVILLE — A Kansas woman is wanted for giving police an apparently bogus report that she witnessed a drug-related murder and helped the killer dump the body in Beaver Lake.

Amanda Kay Shelby, 21, of Baxter, Kan., faces an arrest warrant filed Friday on felony charges of filing a false police report.

Shelby is accused on July 17 of telling Washington County sheriff 's deputies that she and a man traveled to a residence on War Eagle Blacktop Road to collect drugs and money.

She told deputies she witnessed the man shoot an unknown white male twice in the chest and that the victim fell dead on the floor, according to the affidavit forarrest warrant.

She also said the shooter and she returned six hours later to dispose of the body. She told deputies she helped tie the victim's hands and feet together and attached cement blocks.

She said they used a wheelbarrow to load the body into the vehicle and traveled to Beaver Lake, where they boarded a boat and sunk the body, according to the affidavit.

Deputies executed a search warrant at the War Eagle Blacktop Road residence and arrested the resident on drug-related charges but found no evidence of a homicide, according to the report.

The man Shelby accused of murder denied shooting anyone and passed a polygraph test administered by the Sheriff's Office.

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