Georgia teen was starved and kept in a dog cage for months before she was buried in family's backyard
A 14-year-old Georgia girl who was found buried in her family's backyard next to her brother — who had been missing for more than two years — was allegedly beaten, starved, and kept confined in a tiny dog cage during the final months of her life, the Effingham County Superior Court heard on Tuesday.
A press release by the Effingham County Sheriff's Office reported that deputies received a tip about Mary Crocker's whereabouts on December 19.
Deputies dispatched to a residence in the 400 block of Rosebud Place, Guyton, which was Mary's home, searched the grounds after becoming suspicious of her family and found two bodies buried just inside the woodline: that of Mary and her 14-year-old brother, Elwyn Crocker Jr, who had been missing since November 2016.