MO - Brandy Morrison, 23, found dead in landfill, St Louis, 28 Jan 2017 *Arrests*

Brandy Morrison was reported missing on January 28th.

Her family said they received phone calls about her disappearance pointing them to a house on Laura Avenue.

On Monday, a fire broke out in a home on the 6200 block of Laura. Morrison's family believed that fire was related to her disappearance.

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Cadaver dogs found the body of a young woman in a landfill Tuesday after St. Louis homicide detectives seeking a missing person traced the trash collection route from a city neighborhood to the dump, Marissa Police Chief Tom Prather said Tuesday.

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Two suspects are charged in the death of Brandy Morrison, 23, whose body was found in a landfill in Marissa, Illinois Tuesday.

Paulren Stepter, 51, and Courtney Williams, 40, are charged with tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse. Williams is also charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action...

Tuesday morning, the medical examiner's office said the woman had been shot in the head before her body was discarded.

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ST. LOUIS • A man facing a murder charge in the 2017 shooting death of a woman whose body was found dumped in a Metro East landfill has been charged in a 2016 killing in St. Louis.

Paulren Stepter, 52, of the 6100 block of Laura Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Dec. 23, 2016, shooting death of Arnold Adams. Adams, 40, was found fatally shot about 6:30 a.m. at Martin Luther King Drive and North Cardinal Avenue in the city's Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.

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