crash happened off U.S. Route 50 in Jennings County, Ind., on Sept. 17<\/a>, when Bell, 39, and Reed, 37, were driving from Pennsylvania to Indiana. Reed, of Seymour, Ind., had traveled to Pennsylvania to pick up her boyfriend and promised to return in time for her son’s birthday, her family members said on Facebook.<\/p>\nReed’s daughter told police that she had last spoken with her mother shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 17. The two talked via FaceTime, and Reed told her daughter that she would be home in about an hour, the affidavit said. During the conversation, Reed appeared to be sitting in the front passenger seat of her SUV.<\/p>\n
On Sept. 18, after Reed didn’t show up for her son’s birthday, her ex-husband called police, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Two days later, shortly after 5 p.m. on Sept. 20, a passerby spotted Bell near a guardrail on U.S. Route 50 and called for help. Bell, according to the affidavit, did not initially tell police that he had been in the crash or that his girlfriend’s body was in the Explorer.<\/p>\n
After a records check on Bell’s name and driver’s license, a state trooper found that he was the person known to be with Reed when she was reported missing, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n
When the trooper asked where Reed was, Bell had a surprised look on his face and told police that she was still in the vehicle down the ravine, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n
Bell’s mother, Gloria Bell, told the York Daily Record that the crash was an accident and her son didn’t try to kill Reed.<\/p>\n
“I feel bad for him,” she told the paper. “I just am praying that things go well out there for him and that the judge would show mercy on him.”<\/p>\n
Bell has an active warrant for his arrest, though no foul play is suspected in Reed’s death. An autopsy found that she died because of a broken neck and blunt force trauma.<\/p>\n
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