Investigators say they should know Sunday morning if a body found inside a freezer buried in a Pike County yard is that of a missing woman.

Bruce Dillon was arrested Friday night, charged with murdering his wife, Sherry Dillon, who was reported missing back in early July. Crews searched the area around the couple’s Belfry home Friday, finding the buried remains.

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“I was in shock,” said Crystal Price, the Dillons’ neighbor and friend. “Would I ever have expected in a million years he would done something like that? Absolutely not.”

Price spoke highly of Bruce Dillon, saying she didn’t think he was capable of such a gruesome act.

“He was funny. He was loving to his children. He was loving to her,” Price said. “It’s eery to think that I could’ve been out here when he was doing that to her, you know?”

The Pike County Coroner confirmed the woman’s remains were inside of a freezer.

“That makes him look guilty,” said Price. “Anyone that you ever loved, you wouldn’t just throw them out like a piece of trash.”

While Dillon has been charged with killing his wife, the coroner said an autopsy on the body found will not be performed until Sunday morning, meaning the remains have yet to be positively identified.

Still, the Dillons’ neighbors are confident the remains are those of Sherry Dillon.

Bruce Dillon is charged with murder (domestic violence) and abuse of a corpse. He declined LEX 18’s request for an interview from the Pike County Jail.

Linn County investigators on Wednesday found the body of Waterloo resident Gary Douglas Baker, 69, on his wooded property near the South Santiam River, and the death is being investigated as a homicide.

Baker was last seen July 30.

Detectives have identified someone they termed a “person of interest” in the killing, but they have not named the individual. They said Friday that the investigation was continuing, and that there was no reason to believe there is any danger to the community. Sheriff Tim Mueller announced the discovery of the body Friday.

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Detectives had discovered the body on Wednesday after serving a search warrant on Baker’s residence at 39440 Woodbine Drive, where the unmarried Baker lived with his 17-year-old nephew, Jonathan Stuart Baker.

Deputies had checked the property on July 31 and on Aug. 1 and 3, but Wednesday’s search was much more extensive. Baker’s vehicle, which originally had been reported missing, was found on his five-acre property.

“A post-mortem examination performed by the medical examiner revealed that Mr. Baker was killed by homicidal violence,” the sheriff wrote in a press release.

On July 31, business associates of Baker’s reported that he had not attended any of his scheduled appointments. They told deputies that this is very unlike Baker and thought something may have happened to him. Baker was a marketing associate with Smart Media Technologies, which is based in Henderson, Nev.

On Aug. 1 and 3, other business associates also became concerned when Baker uncharacteristically missed several appointments.

Detectives continued to interview associates of Baker’s, including friends and family and his nephew, who had been taken into custody on Monday morning following a high-speed pursuit on Interstate 5, according to police logs.

The pursuit started near the Linn County line and went into Marion County, where the teen left the freeway at the Sunnyside-Turner exit and was apprehended in what Linn County authorities termed a high-risk traffic stop. The Oregon State Police assisted. The teen was booked into the Linn County Jail on charges of felony attempt to elude and reckless driving and remains in custody.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Investigators have arrested the husband of a McCurtain County woman for murder in connection with her disappearance 10 years ago.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Friday agents arrested 39-year-old Jerry Meek at the International Paper Company in Valliant where he works.

Defense attorney Terry Pierce of Norman says Meeks is not guilty and his wife is a missing person.

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The OSBI says Meek’s wife, 25-year-old Hope Meek, was reported missing by her husband in February 2002 several days after he last saw her. The agency says it has gathered circumstantial evidence indicating the woman died on February 21, 2002, after a fight with her husband at their home.

Jerry Meek was booked into the McCurtain County Jail on a first-degree murder complaint. His bond was set at $250,000.

The Troy Police Department is hosting a press conference at 2:30 p.m. today, reportedly to announcing the finding of the missing man’s body.

According to a story in Freep.com, the body of Patrick Mikes Sr, 55, has been found, as has his missing bicycle.
Already, Mr. Mikes son, Patrick Mikes Jr., has been charged with open murder, as police have long suspected foul play.
Numerous officers from Troy have been searching in Montrose, near Flint, after being told that a suspicious car had been driving back and forth recently.
The amount of blood and other evidence led police to believe that Mr. Mikes had been killed inside the basement of his home. DNA tests confirmed that the blood belonged to Mr. Mikes and to his son.

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Troy’s police chief, Gary Mayer, confirmed to the Freep.com that Mr. Mikes body was found in a cornfield.
Though initially the case was one of a missing person, police moved quickly to calling the case a homicide and charging the younger Mikes with credit card fraud.
The neighborhood was surprised at the case and had been hopeful that the father, a widower, would be found and that the son would not be involved.
Troy police declined comment until the press conference