Casey and Sandy Parsons charged with the murder of their adopted daughter

Casey and Sandy Parsons charged with the murder of their adopted daughter

YEARS after a 13-year-old girl vanished in North Carolina, her parents have been charged with murder.

Casey and Sandy Parsons, who are already in prison for tax fraud, have been indicted by a grand jury in the murder of their teen daughter, Erica Parsons.

Erica’s body was found in September of 2016 in South Carolina, five years after she vanished. Her adoptive father, Sandy Parsons, who was already in prison serving time for his white collar crime, showed investigators where he had buried the child shortly before Christmas in 2011 near property owned by his family, reported WBTV.

A judge approved transportation of Parsons from prison to help locate the body. They uncovered the girl’s remains in a shallow grave the next month, the warrant said.

Both Sandy and his wife Casey continued to collect benefits and were convicted of tax fraud in 2014.

Both adoptive parents have been charged with first-degree murder, child abuse, concealment of death, and obstruction of justice, according to local station WBTV.

According to the Charlotte Observer, authorities and experts say that the couple repeatedly inflicted “torture” on the teen.

Sandy Parsons admitted he locked Erica in a closet, beat her “with belt buckle” and bent her fingers back and choked her, according to the Observer.

Erica was not reported missing until 2013 when the couple went on Dr. Phil McGraw’s national TV show to plead for help in finding their adopted daughter.

Erica had lived with her adoptive parents in Rowan County from 2000 until the time of her disappearance.