Nikie Mayo

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Nichole Carver, the estranged wife of Charles David Carver, was granted a $2,500 personal recognizance bond when she appeared alone before an Anderson judge Wednesday.

Carver, 35, is accused of impersonating Anderson Police Department Detective Charlynn Ezell. According to an arrest warrant and police report, Carver tried on Oct. 8 to get AT&T to "geo-locate" her estranged husband's cellphone.

Judge Goetz Eaton said Nichole Carver had no criminal history.

Carver told the judge she does not need a public defender. She said she had a private lawyer, whom she did not identify.

After the hearing, Lt. Mike Aikens said his agency is still investigating posts that were made on Charles David Carver's Facebook page after his disappearance.

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Charges against someone connected to those posts are still possible, he said.

"We are still looking at a lot of leads, a lot of new leads," Aikens said. "We are not done."

Aikens said that just in the past few days the Anderson Police Department has gotten responses to search warrants the agency sought weeks ago.

"There are a lot of search warrants connected to this case," he said.

Carver changed out of her orange jumpsuit into street clothes and left the Anderson Police Department through a side door just moments after her hearing, while reporters and officers remained inside the municipal courtroom that is part of the same complex.

When she was arrested, officers logged only a few personal effects she had, including silver shoes, a pack of cigarettes and a purple lighter.

A woman who answered Carver's phone number hung up on an Independent Mail reporter later Wednesday.

Ezell, the officer Carver is accused of impersonating, was at the hearing. Ezell said the judge granted the kind of bond she expected, given that Carver has no criminal record.

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Aikens said Carver did speak with Anderson officers after her arrest, but did not provide them "with anything that would help our investigation."

Carver is next expected to appear in General Sessions Court in December.

The body of her estranged husband, Charles David Carver, was found Friday on land owned by Todd Kohlhepp, an Upstate real estate agent and convicted sex offender. Kohlhepp has been charged with kidnapping Charles David Carver's girlfriend, Kala Brown. He has also confessed to a 2003 quadruple homicide in Chesnee, according to Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright.

Aikens said Anderson police are still trying to determine whether Nichole Carver is connected to Kohlhepp. They are asking anyone who has information to contact the Anderson Police Department at 864-260-4444.

"We are asking anyone who may have seen them together, or who knows anything about whether they are connected, to please contact us," Aikens said. "If there is information out there, we need it."

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