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Search continues for missing mother
Lab results are back on possible evidence that may lead the Dyer County Sheriff's Office to answers in the disappearance of Karen Swift.
Sheriff Jeff Box insists they are making progress in the case and they are still searching for swift even though no one is in custody, they haven’t named any suspects, and no one knows where swift is.
Mother of 4 Karen Swift has been missing for over a month.
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Women who knew Swift rule out possibility that she ran off on her own
The investigation into the disappearance of Karen Swift has been going on for over a month with still not sign of the mother of four.
As Dyer County Sheriff's investigators are scouring over information and looking into every possible scenario as to what could have happened to her, some women that knew Swift are ruling out the possibility that she ran away.
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Body found in Dyer County
The Dyer County Sheriff's Department says a badly decomposed body belonging to a woman was found on Harness Road Saturday afternoon.
Those that live in the area fear the body could belong to the missing mother of four, Karen swift. The Dyer County woman went missing in the early morning hours of October 30th.
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Body found off of highway 78 near Dyer County
Dyer County sheriff's deputies, the TBI, and the Attorney General are investigating a body found in rural Dyer County Saturday afternoon.
Police blocked off a large portion of Harness Road near Highway 78 for most of Saturday afternoon and night. That is where they found a decomposed body near the home of missing Dyer County mother Karen Swift.
Many residents were left wondering what was going on.
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Karen Swift body indentified by TBI
The remains of a body found in rural Dyer County on Saturday have been identified as those of 44 year old Karen Swift. Swift has been missing for more than a month.

Authorities had cordoned off an area of Harness Road near Highway 78 for most of Saturday afternoon and evening, where the decomposed body was found.

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Body identified as that of Swift, case being investigated as homicide
The Dyer County Sheriff's Department announced on Monday that the body found in Dyer County on Saturday is that of the missing mother of four, Karen Swift and it is being investigated as a homicide.
Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box stated the body was positively identified as Swift by dental records after it was sent to the Shelby County Medical Examiner's Office in Memphis.

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Body in Dyer County indentified as missing woman
A body recovered Saturday in Dyer County has been identified as that of a woman reported missing in October, according to the Dyer County Sheriff’s Office.
An autopsy at the Shelby County Regional Forensic Center in Memphis confirmed through dental records that the body is Karen Johnson Swift, a 44-year-old mother of four reporting missing on Oct. 30.
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Loved ones react to news of Karen Swift's death
Residents across Region 8 and the Mid South Monday experienced sadness at the news Karen Swift, a mother of four children in Dyer County, Tennessee, was found dead near her home. According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, a body was found in rural Dyer County Saturday afternoon. Using dental records, the medical examiner's office in Memphis was able to identify the body as Swift's.

Monday, family members traveled to Dyersburg to discuss the case with police, according to Janet Ross. Ross said she graduated high school at Walnut Ridge with Swift and was her friend.
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http://www.stategazette.com/story/1849038.html
Sheriff confident Swift murderer will be brought to justice
Although no charges have been made in the five-month-long murder investigation of Karen Swift, Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box says he is certain he and his team of investigators will undoubtedly make an arrest.
"We are confident we will bring the person, or persons responsible, to justice," said Box. "The investigation is still active and ongoing."
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http://www.stategazette.com/story/1983374.html
Swift home searched by sheriff's office and TBI
A search warrant was served Wednesday evening at the house of David Swift, husband of murdered mother of four Karen Swift.
Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box stated that a search warrant was served at the Swift residence on Willie Johnson Road in Dyer County at 6:18 p.m. on Wednesday.
 
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Husband-of-Ark-native-denies-role-in-her-death-4911444.php

Husband of Ark. native denies role in her death

The estranged husband of an Arkansas woman found dead in Tennessee nearly two years ago denies any role in her death.

David Swift told The Jonesboro Sun (http://bit.ly/1a4e2pG ) that he had nothing to do with the death of his wife, Karen Johnson Swift, and that he is fully cooperating with police who are investigating her slaying.

Karen Swift disappeared Oct. 30, 2011, from her home near Dyersburg in western Tennessee. Her body was found Dec. 10, 2011, under kudzu bushes in a cemetery in Dyer County.
 
http://www.stategazette.com/story/2133593.html

David Swift breaks his silence
Friday, October 31, 2014

It was three years ago when 44-year-old Karen Swift, mother of four, went missing. Though an extensive investigation immediately followed Swift's disappearance concerning her whereabouts, it was nearly six weeks later before her body was found near Bledsoe Cemetery in Dyer County.

Karen Swift filed for divorce on Oct.10, three weeks prior to her disappearance, but continued to live at the residence with her husband, David Swift, on Willie Johnson Road until she disappeared.


http://www.wtoc.com/story/27178924/...-claims-investigators-didnt-ask-for-interview

David Swift's attorney claims investigators didn't ask for interview

The husband of murder victim Karen Swift is breaking his silence. It is triggering a war of words with Dyer County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies say David Swift won't talk. Swift says investigators never followed up with him.

"We've called his attorney on numerous occasions trying to get an interview with him and they just tell us it's going to happen," Dyer County Sheriff's Office Investigator Terry McCreight said. "It's three years and it hasn't happened yet."

David Swift told the Dyersburg State Gazette in a recent interview that investigators did not want to talk with him after they learned he had an attorney.
 
This is one of those cases that periodically crosses my mind. I wish Karen could have justice! I wonder how her children have coped not having closure to their mother's murder?
 
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