MARION, Ill. (WSIL) -- A man is behind bars after being accused of killing a Marion woman who was helping him travel to Kalamazoo, Michigan.
An arrest was made on December 31, 2020, 173 days after Laura Wolfe's family reported her missing.
News 3 spoke to the victim's daughter, Amber Whitlock late last year when Wolfe first went missing.
"Whenever it had been over 24 hours and her phone was still turned off, that's when I was like, okay, something is definitely not right," said Whitlock.
Whitlock's hunch was right, back on July 15 Wolfe was last seen leaving her home to help a man who goes by the name of "Snoop" travel to Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"My mom's the kind of person that would literally give her shirt off her back." No matter how she's feeling, she's always trying to help other people smile and feel happy and she's just a really good person," said Whitlock.
Three months later on October 28, a farmer harvesting corn in Springfield Township, Indiana found human remains. It wasn't until December that investigators concluded they found Amber's mother.
The La Porte County Sheriff’s Office have not identified who the man known as Snoop is, but they said, evidence led them to 39-year-old Lynn Ware Junior.
Authorities located Ware in O’Fallon, Illinois where he was taken into custody on New Year's Eve.
Ware is now facing charges in Wolfe's death in what detectives say is an open and ongoing investigation.
