Nick Kasotis

Jack, had you ever run into anything like this?

What day were you out here, and what do you remember from that day?

And your big priority was to find the rest of this woman and find out who she is?

So you get this call from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, and he says, you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you?

Yeah, he absolutely said that.

I think the first thing through my mind was disbelief.

That's what all of the immediate friends and family of Mindy's had been told.

Nobody was looking for a murder victim.

They thought she had died of natural causes.

What did they think had happened to her?

She died at the hospital on December 1st.

She's not in the woods.

She was cremated.

Investigator Jack Frost, now with the Liberty County Georgia DA's office, was one of the first detectives called to the scene on December 2nd, 2022.

Detectives recovered a razor sharp Milwaukee brand knife, a plastic storage tub with what looked like traces of blood, and wipes.

Do you think whoever brought her out here had to know this area?

That would be a safe assumption because it's so desolate.

It would take five days until investigator Frost found the rest of her body.

Authorities said it appeared the woman had defensive wounds.

There's no one that winds up dismembered in the woods that's not a victim of homicide.