Cedar County authorities identify buried body, arrest two for manslaughter
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Published: Feb. 17, 2023 at 8:02 PM CST|Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 12:22 PM CST
CEDAR COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) - The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office identified the body buried in a rural part of the county last week.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the body has been identified as Ginger Lynn Schumaker.
Shawn Wickstrom of Stockton and Christopher Applebee of El Dorado Springs both face involuntary manslaughter charges and abandoning a corpse. Both men are being held in the Cedar County Jail on a $200,000 cash bond each.
Investigators say the two injected a lethal dose of fentanyl into Schumaker. Investigators say she had a reaction to the dose, killing her.
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