OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — One day after a body was found outside a missing elderly woman's Osceola County home, her daughter has been jailed after being charged for allegedly lying to detectives.
Osceola County sheriff's detectives said they arrested Amy Day and charged her with providing false information to law enforcement regarding a missing person, and providing false information to law enforcement capital felony.
During the course of the investigation, detectives discovered that Day, 44, made inconsistent statements regarding her mother's missing persons investigation.
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Day is considered a person of interest in the disappearance of her mother, Ora Hawkins, and the suspicious death investigation at the woman's Lake Shore Drive residence, where investigators found a body in the backyard flower garden.
Authorities said Hawkins lived alone until her daughter divorced former property appraiser Bob Day, who was convicted of grand theft while in office.
Authorities have not said yet whether the body found at the home belonged to Hawkins.
Family members said they last saw Hawkins Saturday at noon. Shortly before 8:30 p.m. that day, Hawkins allegedly called her daughter to say she was traveling to Colorado with a woman named Rose, a friend she met at Eastern Avenue Baptist Church in St. Cloud, authorities said.
Day has since been arrested and booked into the Osceola County Jail. A judge set her bond at $600,000 and is requiring her to wear a GPS monitor if she's released.
Detectives are working in conjunction with the Medical Examiner's Office to identify the body.
The investigation remains active.
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