The Daily Mail
SMITHFIELD, N.C. — The body of a missing North Carolina woman was found inside her wrecked car three days after it was towed away from the crash scene.
Carolyn Ann Watkins, 62, of Clayton was reported missing by her son early Monday after she failed to show up at work.
Watkins’ crashed 2000 Pontiac was found several days earlier, on Friday morning, in a deep ditch near Smithfield about 30 miles southeast of Raleigh.
Both air bags had deployed, according to an accident report filed Friday by North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Marlon Williams.
But Watkins’ body was in fact still inside the car, her family believes hidden under the deployed airbags. The patrol had a local towing company move the car to a lot for storage, where it remained with the Clayton woman inside until her body was discovered Monday evening by a Smithfield police officer searching for clues about her disappearance.
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