Four days after Christmas in 2013, Marie Walkingstick Pheasant was found dead in a “badly charred and nearly destroyed” car parked on the Qualla Boundary, court records show. She was 26 years old.
A man who lit a car ablaze with his dead wife inside in the N.C. mountains was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, federal prosecutors in Charlotte said. Marie Walkingstick Pheasant was found in the ...