More than a year after a 91-year-old man's body was found dumped on a roadway on an Indian reservation in Broward, his girlfriend has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident.
Aprilanne Markley-Pope, 59, was arrested Tuesday on charges of abuse of a dead human body and tampering with physical evidence, Broward jail records showed.
According to an arrest affidavit, it was back on March 23, 2023, when Markley-Pope abandoned the body of 91-year-old Milton Ewell on Airport Road in the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation.
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Ewell's decomposing body was found two days later, on March 25, by a driver who saw the body on the side of the road.
Markley-Pope and Ewell had apparently dated and lived together for some time
The affidavit said Markley-Pope was found in Ewell's car, which had what appeared to be blood inside.
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Also inside the car were a brand new shovel, a new blue tarp, a large chain with a lock, a bottle of bleach and three bottles of hydrogen peroxide, the affidavit said.
The medical examiner wasn't able to determine a cause and manner of death, the affidavit said. Markley-Pope hasn't been charged in Ewell's death.
Markley-Pope was booked into jail, where she was being held on $200,000 bond, records showed. Attorney information wasn't available.
