Benton County deputies arrested a third person wanted for the death of a man found near a bike park at Truman Lake in June of ...

Jack Wagner, Kayley Birnbaum and Michael Birnbaum are charged in connection to the killing of Cody Garrett, who was 28, at ...

Garrett was booked into the Ellis County Jail on charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated domestic battery, ...

A third person has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a Columbia man in 2021 in Benton County.

Garrett, 28, was reported missing on June 12, 2021. That same day, deputies located his vehicle at the Truman Lake Mountain Bike Park outside Warsaw.

Less than two months after Cody Garrett's death, on Nov. 16, 2021, Garrett's wife Clementine Garrett died from COVID complications made worse by a MRSA infection, according to Garrett.

Clementine and Daniel Garrett raised Cody and his brother Dalton, 17, at their Marshall home from the time they were babies. Garrett was a 2020 graduate of Madison High School.

Danny Garrett, the grandfather of Cody Garrett, a 19-year-old boy killed in a crossbow homicide, detailed his distress after losing his wife to COVID.