Sharp-eyed passers by and quick work by the Richland Parish sheriff's office led to the speedy arrest of a murder suspect Saturday morning.
"A couple was coming home from a party around midnightSaturday and saw two people near the edge of a bridge ." Richland Parish Sheriff Charles McDonald said.
"They thought they were just sick and the boy wanted to stop and help them, butwhen they saw the chain around her waist and the cement blocks, the girlpunched it and got out of there .... which was the right thing to do"
McDonald said deputies contacted a Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries officer and were able to immediately drag near Hatch's Bridge. They found the body on the second pass.
"You could see the marks the concrete left when he dragged her to to the side of the bridge," McDonald said. "We could tell where she went in."
Once the body was recoveredand identified Lincoln Parish Sheriff's deputies were alerted.
The women's husband ,is supected of killing her in Cudrant on Saturday evening and driving to Richland Parish to dump the body.Bob Davis was arrested around 4:30 am near milepost 97 on interstate 20 . He was then charged with second-degree murder and is being held at Licoln Parish Detention Center on $1 million bond