The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office says that two more people have been arrested in connection with the death of 36-year-old Amber Marie Schimmelpfenning – a homicide case that’s gotten more disturbing the deeper investigators dig.
On Friday, Sept. 19, sheriff’s detectives were notified that Schimmelpfenning’s missing Chevrolet Avalanche had turned up at a home on Oakdale Drive in Winston-Salem. When investigators from the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office and the Winston-Salem Police Department showed up, they found the Avalanche – and they also found Schimmelpfenning’s remains at the residence.
According to the sheriff’s office, parts of her body had been dismembered and weren’t at the scene.
Two days later, on Sunday, Sept. 21, deputies were called out to Lake Higgins in Summerfield after human remains were discovered in the water there.
A search of the area turned up dismembered body parts presumed to belong to Schimmelpfenning.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Raleigh is handling the final identification.
After working with both Forsyth and Guilford County district attorneys, as well as Winston-Salem police, investigators say they identified two additional suspects: Leslie Andrew Greene, 50 and Sunshine Hall, 44
Warrants were issued on charges of felony accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and felony concealment/failure to report an unnatural death.
Greene was arrested on Thursday, Oct. 2, by Guilford County deputies. He was initially booked into the Guilford County Detention Center in High Point and given a $500,000 secured bond during his first court appearance on Tuesday, Oct. 7.
He was later transferred to the Forsyth County Detention Center.
Hall was arrested on Wednesday, Oct. 8, by Greensboro police’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team.
She was booked into the Guilford County Detention Center in Greensboro and remains there without bond since she was already out on pretrial release.
Meanwhile, another suspect, Ricky Lam, remains in the Guilford County Detention Center in Greensboro under no bond.
