A Franklin man has been arrested in the deaths of two elderly sisters from Emporia whose bodies were discovered two years ago along a desolate North Carolina road.
William Curtis Futrell, 34, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder by authorities in Hertford County, N.C. He is being held there without bond and was arraigned today. Futrell will face a probable cause hearing next month.
He is charged with the deaths of Dorothy Hobbs, 74, and Nellie Bradley, 71.
Their bodies -- naked and stabbed -- were discovered Aug. 4, 2006, about 7:30 p.m. near a wooded area about a half-mile outside Murfreesboro, about 30 miles from Roanoke Rapids. The women had last been seen alive about 4 p.m. that day in Boykins in Virginia.
Authorities found their car about 15 miles away, with blood in the trunk.
Investigators from North Carolina and Virginia and the FBI have spent the past two years tracking their killer.
Hertford County Sheriff Juan Vaughan said yesterday that Futrell was not a suspect until evidence tested recently led investigators to him. He declined to give details about that evidence.
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