A NORTH CAROLINA MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF PREGNANT WISE COUNTY WOMAN

A man is facing murder charges after allegedly killing a pregnant Wise County woman. 33-year-old James Isaac Jones, of Pikeville, North Carolina, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one open count of murder, of Cassia Renee Duval, and one count of murder of an unborn child. Jones and Duval had been living together at a home in Pikeville, and according to Duval's father, a Wise County Sheriff's Office Investigator, they had been dating for at least eight years. The 29-year-old Duval was found dead in a vehicle on January 29 at the intersection of Pikeville-Princeton Road and Nahunta Road in Wayne County, North Carolina. Her unborn child was a girl, to be named Aspen. Jones is now being held with no bond in the Wayne County Jail.  

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