CLOVER, S.C. (AP) - A man has been charged with murder after a woman’s body was found in the backyard of a home in Clover.
Authorities tell local media outlets that deputies responded to a home at about 10 a.m. Monday. There, they found the body of 30-year-old Jessica Pitman Stewart in the backyard.
The York County Sheriff’s Office says 35-year-old Steven Tyler Benfield was arrested and charged with murder.
Authorities have not said how Stewart died. Sheriff’s spokesman Trent Faris says Benfield owns the home where Stewart was found.
Benfield was being held in the York County jail, and it wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney.
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