Canton cops suspect beau killed woman found in car trunk

Associated Press

CANTON

A 19-year-old man faces a murder charge after police found his missing girlfriend’s body in the trunk of her car, parked in the driveway of a neighbor who gave the man a place to stay for the night.

Joshua Babcock, of Canton, was arrested Thursday when police looking for Monique Crockett, 25, found her decomposing body in the trunk of her Pontiac Grand Prix. Detectives believe the mother of three had been dead for at least a week, the Canton Repository reported.

Babcock remained in jail Saturday on $2 million bond. His attorney did not immediately respond to an Associated Press message seeking comment.

Police Capt. Dave Davis said an autopsy did not immediately indicate how Crockett died, and more test results are pending.

The car was found outside the home of Babcock’s former neighbor, Pam Walker. She told the newspaper she was letting Babcock spend the night on her couch and she had no warning about what police would find in the car, which had been parked in her driveway since Babcock and a friend told her the car broke down about a week earlier.

“If I had any inkling whatsoever, I would’ve called police,” Walker said. She said Babcock had always seemed quiet, a contrast to the outspoken Crockett.

“When he was here, he walked around here like nothing happened,” she said.