A 23-year-old mom is useless after discovering her live-in boyfriend married one other girl. The Georgia man, whom police revealed as Michale Edwards, is accused of killingBriana Winston and burning her physique afterward. They reportedly shared a toddler.
The Clayton County Police Dept. revealed particulars concerning the disturbing case on Monday (Might 13), per PEOPLE. It had been a few month since her household reported her lacking after shedding contact along with her in mid-March.
Authorities arrested Edwards after a person provided particulars about Briana’s disappearance earlier this month. Michale Edwards is charged with aggravated assault, malice homicide, felony homicide, and tampering with proof.
What Did The Georgia Man Do To Briana Winston?
In the meantime, the unnamed man requested immunity within the case in trade for the ugly data. He revealed that he had helped Edwards eliminate Briana’s physique after he killed her on March 17. On that day, she had reportedly confronted her boyfriend for dishonest on her.
Amid arguing, Lt. Ashanti Marbury says Edwards “choked” Briana Winston after which stuffed her lifeless physique right into a suitcase. Afterward, the Georgia man drove to Gates, Tennessee — over 400 miles from Clayton County. Collectively, the boys put Winston’s physique inside a burn barrel and lit it on fireplace utilizing an accelerant. Police allege that they let the physique burn for hours till the 23-year-old was simply “skeletal stays.”
“Then they used a shovel to interrupt down Briana’s bones in an try to hurry up the burning course of,” Lt. Marbury stated at Monday’s press convention.
Afterward, each males unfold her stays in numerous areas. The Georgia man (her ex-boyfriend) scattered them alongside Interstate 40 in Tennessee. In the meantime, his confederate dumped his portion of her stays in a cemetery behind a church.
Who Else Was Concerned In The Case?
Edwards was an individual of curiosity within the lacking individuals case from the soar. Throughout Briana’s disappearance, her household found that Michale had fully cleaned out their joint residence, per a police assertion.
Police first interviewed him on April 4 after arresting him for aggravated stalking, which was a violation of a protecting order involving Winston.
The next day, his spouse, Brienna Phillips-Edwards, was additionally jailed for allegedly offering false statements to the police.
It’s unclear what these statements had been, however Lt. Marbury says Edwards turned the crime into “a household affair” by looping in his of us. His spouse allegedly aided by offering Edwards with the automobile to move Briana’s physique.
“We additionally realized in that interview on April 5 that [Brienna] had secretly married Michale on Jan. 25, 2024, and that no person was conscious that the 2 had been married,” Lt. Marbury stated.
See their photographs beneath.
The Georgia man’s mom, Ebony Anderson, and brother, Keilan Wright, are additionally behind bars for conspiracy of tampering with proof. In a recorded jailhouse name, Edwards instructed them to burn a pair of footwear and gloves that he allegedly used throughout the crime.
