The family of Flisha Cox, a Mississippi woman who disappeared in July 2007 and police have consistently estimated she was murdered, was closed this week when authorities managed to find her body with a map handed over to a prisoner sentenced to death for another murder.
The inmate, 50-year-old David Neil Cox, is the brother-in-law of an invasion, and he was executed in Mississippi about a month ago, on November 17th. He was sentenced to death for another murder he committed: in May 2010 he shot his wife to death after she decided to leave him, and while dying he repeatedly sexually assaulted her 12-year-old daughter – his stepdaughter.
For years David Cox was also considered the main suspect in the affair of the disappearance and murder of Invasion, his brother’s wife, and he was the last to see her alive. It was only last summer, when the date of his execution was approaching, that he suddenly began cooperating with investigators, and before committing the death sentence admitted that he was the killer. In the US, it is reported that shortly before the execution, the daughter of an invader, Amber Miskley, 32, sent a letter to the killer, asking him to find out where he buried her, before she lost the chance to get an answer.
In exchange for receiving immunity from prosecution for the murder of an invader, the death row inmate agreed to draw a map that would lead investigators to the place where he buried the body, and hand it over to his lawyers so that they could take it to authorities after his death. After being executed last month by injecting poison, the lawyers upheld the deal, handed over the document, and the map led the researchers and their assistants, including archeology experts, to a site in Pontotok County, Mississippi.
The search team used penetrating radar and satellite images, some from the days of the disappearance of an invasion in 2007 and some recent ones, and on Sunday this week they found human remains. They were sent for DNA tests, but investigators have already announced that they are the remains of an invasion.
At the time the remains were found, members of the invasion family, including her daughter Amber, were at the scene of the incident, and they witnessed the moment of discovery. Daughter Amber said she received a letter from the killer’s lawyers expressing remorse: “He said he was sorry he took my mother’s life, and her name was illogical. He said he should never have hurt her.”