Body Found – Suspect Arrested in Lumpkin County Murder

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LUMPKIN CO., Ga. – The body of a missing Murrayville woman was found early Sunday in the woods off Hwy. 60 just north of Dahlonega.  The man she had been linked to romantically has been charged with murder and aggravated assault.

Deputies with the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office, Hall County Sheriff’s Office, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation located the body of 41-year-old Wanda Kay McDougald about one mile south of the Union County line shortly after midnight.

Hall County deputies located 52-year-old John Harol Whitfield at a home in Clermont Sunday afternoon. He has been charged with murder and aggravated assault and booked into the Lumpkin County jail.

GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said McDougald and Whitfield had lived together for more than a year.

An autopsy is pending. Fetch Your News will have more details as they become available.

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