NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — Deputies have arrested a Walton County man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and concealing her death.
On March 3, Newton County Sheriff’s Office found Colette Sease’s body in a lake near Ga. 212 in Covington. Deputies said Sease did not die from drowning and that her cause of death was a homicide.
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On Monday, deputies along with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office and GBI arrested Travis Abbott at a home on Broadnax Mill Road in Loganville.
Investigators said that Abbott and Sease had been in a relationship. He faces charges of murder and concealing the death of another.
Abbott, who is at the Walton County Detention Center, will be transferred to the Newton County Detention Center.
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