Nov 29, 2023
Woman Charged With Murder Of Missing Man Granted $150,000 Bond, Victim's Family Devastated
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Missing Georgia man.
Woman charged with murder, okay?
There is an issue going
on granted $150,000 bond,
20 year old Destiny Stephens has been
charged with concealing the death and
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murder in connection with
the lengthy disappearance of
21 year old Leandra Flynt of
the Atlanta suburb of Loganville.
On Tuesday, Stephens was granted
a $150,000 bond, ordered not to
contact Flynt's family, leaving the
victim's devastated family, frustrated.
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They actually took my auntie in custody
when she heard that she had bond,
Shannon Wilson, the victim's cousin,
told local station WXIA.
She just yelled out in court,
where's his body?
Because we still haven't found his body.
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Let a black star filling
in the details for us.
Details of Flynt's disappearance last
seen earlier this year, July 29,
when he informed a relative
that he was heading to a store
to pick up an auto part,
Fox 5 Atlanta reported that.
He was reported missing about three days
later to authorities in Gwinnett County,
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where Loganville is located.
Mid August now,
the Atlanta Police Department executed
a search warrant at an apartment in
the Buckhead district of Atlanta where
items of evidentiary value were obtained.
According to the report, investigators
said they believe the victim was killed in
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that apartment that was
based on their findings.
Now, his family reports that on
the day of his disappearance,
he told a family member he was
going to see a woman in Buckhead.
Police later traced his
phone location history and
found that on the day he disappeared,
he visited the apartment complex where
the search warrant was executed.
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Now, according to reports, Flynt's
vehicle was traced to Detroit, Michigan.
This is days after his disappearance.
Security footage obtained by
police shows Stephens and
another woman hop out of Flynt's truck in
the parking lot of an Atlanta shopping
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center the day he vanished.
Authorities giving the details.
The two reportedly
purchased a bolt cutter and
hand saw from a home improvement store.
Stephens taken into custody in October.
Two other individuals described as
a man and woman also charged, but
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have yet to be identified by
law enforcement, per 11 Alive.
I can't imagine Wozni what
the family is going through.
The details are horrific.
The bond ticks it up another notch.
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And to not know and
to be begging and pleading for
information such as where's his body?
It is unimaginable.
Think about what they're dealing with.
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>> Speaker 2: Yeah, my heart goes out
to the Flynt family and his community.
This is a story that hits
quite close to home for me.
I have a lot of family members
who live in Gwinnett County and
when something like this happens,
it affects the entire community.
This young too have his income in
such an obviously violent way,
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this guy didn't just disappear,
poof off the face of the earth.
Something untowards happened to him,
which is horrible.
And again, it makes you wonder, right?
You wanna be trustful of people.
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You wanna think you could be in community
with people, and then ultimately,
this guy put himself in a position where
he's around people who don't have his
best interests at heart,
and it's just horrible.
I hope his family is able to
get some level of closure and
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comfort someday by having
a body that they could bury and
commemorate his life and
the love that they have for him.
But this is obviously
just a tragic story for
a guy that's young losing
his life this way.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah,
it's barbaric, animalistic.
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I don't know how someone can and
we understand the implication,
the saw bolt cutter,
to think that someone would want to
get rid of something, someone so
badly that they would resort to this
barbaric behavior, that's the tough part.
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And I don't want to ever find out what
it's like to be in the family's shoes.
But I often drift and think,
would I want to know everything?
Would I want to know everything
that happened to my loved one,
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my heart, outside of my body?
What say you?
>> Speaker 2: That's a great question.
I probably tend to be somebody I
wouldn't want to know, honestly.
I think I'd be fine with not knowing
the gory details of how my loved one came
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to their demise.
I think the closure of knowing,
like, okay, this person is gone, and
we have some of their remains, and
we can go about burying this person and
giving them a proper send off
cuz every family deserves that.
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They deserve to have a proper send off for
their loved ones, for
everybody to have some level of closure.
Yeah, man, I really would like
to see that for the family now,
knowing whether they chop this guy's head
off or something grotesque like that.
I think me, personally,
I'd rather not know.
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>> Speaker 1: Yeah.
And you mentioned a funeral,
a memorial service, something.
And some people would say, well,
the soul is already departed.
The remains, however they were desecrated,
are another matter.
But to me, it's like, I need that.
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It's not closure, I hate that word when
you're dealing with something so sudden,
so horrific.
But I need that, I suppose,
to acknowledge you were here.
You mattered, you were here,
and we need to acknowledge you.
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The details of this one wozni are so
disgusting.
The lack of well, I don't know
what's going through the perp.
We don't know who did it, but
it sure looked a certain way,
and there's enough
circumstantial evidence.
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But I wonder what it's like to
have this in your conscience,
to have to carry this, to see it
when your eyes are open and closed,
where you can never escape it and
I'll give you the last word.
Yeah, and I'm glad you actually
brought that up as far as
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the perpetrators are concerned cuz
obviously the victims family are going
through something horrific.
But these perpetrators are also putting
their own loved ones through a very trying
time where they have to live with and
carry this around with them, where people
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tend to want to support their family
members even in the most trying of times.
And then in that support,
people are going to be looking at
them all kinds of sideways and crazy.
It's just a horrible,
horrible circumstance to have
visited upon all of these families.
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>> Speaker 1: It's a story
we'll keep following.
As you said, you have family there,
I'm in the Atlanta, Georgia area, and
it's just such a mystery
that's unraveling.
So we'll keep following the story,
bringing updates
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