Drusilla Patrick, 68, had not been seen alive since sometime between December 2016 and January 2017. Concerns surfaced in April 2018 after a probation officer supervising her ex-husband, Charles Michael Patrick, became suspicious when he unexpectedly remarried and offered conflicting accounts about Drusilla’s whereabouts. That led the Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office to request assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

A search of Charles Patrick’s Ridgemont Drive property beginning April 25, 2018, turned up human remains believed to be Drusilla’s. An autopsy determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound and the manner of death was homicide; the remains were pending formal forensic identification. Charles Patrick, 72 and a registered sex offender, was arrested April 26, 2018, and charged with her murder.

On the evening of April 27, 2018, Charles Patrick was found hanging in an isolation cell and was pronounced dead. His in-custody death was investigated, leaving aspects of what happened between late 2016 or early 2017 and the April 2018 discovery unresolved.

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