

Heather Williams, missing Fayetteville, North Carolina ‘cognitively impaired’ woman found dead in woods 6 days after getting into stranger’s car, as case now deemed homicide as cops seek leads.
‘Somebody’s got to know something….’ The family of a cognitively impaired 25 year old Fayetteville, North Carolina woman are seeking answers after she was found dead in the woods after last seen getting into a mystery vehicle over a week ago.
Heather Williams’s family say she was captured on doorbell home surveillance footage getting into an unknown persons car only to never return. Footage from Saturday, January 4, circa 9.57 pm, shows her getting into what appears to be a four-door light-colored sedan with a sunroof on Berkshire Road.
It was the last time the family saw the missing 25 year old alive, the family told WTVD.
Cognitively impaired sister was very trusting
‘And then that Sunday, you know, when I woke up, she wasn’t at the house,’ said Mary Williams, Heather’s sister according to the outlet. ‘And, you know, we tried calling her phone. We couldn’t get up with her. It was going straight to voicemail. And like, at that point, we knew something was wrong.’
After failing to return home, and unable to make contact with the 25 year old, Heather’s family reported her missing.
Heather’s sibling said they worried about Heather who became cognitively impaired after getting hit by a car a decade ago. The accident led to Heather having limited speech and limited use of her right leg and right arm and forced to take daily medication after being struck by a car in 2015.
‘She was just so trusting and naive to what the dangers were out there,’ the sibling said.
Williams says her family would become particularly concerned when Heather would meet with people she connected with online. They say they believe that’s what she was likely doing in the surveillance footage.
Six days after going missing, police found Heather’s body in a wooded area near Newark and State Avenue on Friday, some 5 miles from where she was last seen alive.

‘So somebody’s got to know something.’
‘She just loved life, you know, was fearless and loved to be with family,’ Williams said. ‘And she had a love for God that never wavered.’
The same day Williams’s body was found, police also located the suspect’s vehicle.
Heather’s death is being investigated as a homicide, with her family saying Fayetteville police have not identified a person of interest or suspect according to WRAL.
‘It is with a heavy and broken heart that our family confirms the horrific news,’ Mary Williams, wrote on Facebook Saturday.
‘I pray whoever is responsible for this is held accountable and there is justice for Heather.’
‘We’re really hoping that somebody will come forward and give police the missing piece that they’re looking for, the lead that they need. It’s awful when it’s happened to Heather and we don’t want to see it happen to anybody else,’ Mary told WRAL.
Adding, ‘I just ask that people out there, if they hear anything or if they see something, you know, somebody knows something, somebody’s talked to somebody, somebody has, you know, they slip up along the way. So somebody’s got to know something.’
Investigators confirmed to CBS 17 that they have some leads they are looking into but have yet to identify a person of interest in the case.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to contact Detective E. Alrafai at (910) 723-0327 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS-8477.