Woman Accused of Helping Boyfriend Cover Up Wife’s 2016 Murder When She Was 17

A South Carolina lady has been arrested after allegedly serving to her boyfriend cowl up the homicide of his spouse. Shockingly, she was solely a young person on the time…

In October of 2016, Catherine “Cati” Blauvelt — spouse of John Blauvelt — vanished and not using a hint after ending work at a neighborhood Greenville pet retailer. Two days later Cati’s lifeless physique could be present in an deserted constructing in Simpsonville almost 20 minutes away from the place she was final seen. In keeping with the Greenville County Coroner’s Workplace, the girl’s physique was lined in violent stab wounds. So terrible…

Instantly, John turned an individual of curiosity within the case resulting from his estranged relationship along with his spouse. Native radio station WSPA reported earlier this 12 months he had fled the state the day earlier than Catherine’s physique was found — alongside along with his then 17-year-old girlfriend Hannah Thompson. He wasn’t seen once more till July 2022 when US Marshals tracked him down after a six-year-long manhunt. They had been lastly in a position to find and arrest the accused in Medford — a metropolis in Oregon that lies all the way in which throughout the nation from Greenville. However even such an obscure, distant location couldn’t maintain him hidden endlessly.

Associated: Idaho Man Charged In Homicide Of His Mother Discovered With Chunks Of Hair & Pores and skin Lacking

Blauvelt was taken into custody in July and charged with homicide in relation to his partner’s stabbing. Fox Carolina reported on Wednesday he was additionally arrested for deserting the US Military as a result of he was working as a recruiter on the time he left city. The 33-year-old isn’t the one one who’s been arrested regarding this horrific crime, although…

The now 23-year-old Thompson was taken into custody on Wednesday on the grounds of serving to her decade-older accomplice on the day of Cati’s homicide. She’s additionally been accused of mendacity about his whereabouts to guard him — at solely 17 years outdated!

In keeping with an arrest warrant cited by WYFF 4, Hannah was allegedly the one who drove John to the pet retailer and dropped him off the day his spouse was murdered. She then adopted him in her car after her then-boyfriend drove his spouse’s automobile right into a parking zone to make it look as if she had deserted it. Thompson additionally went on the run with him in November 2016 solely to return residence to the Palmetto State in December. After returning residence she didn’t report his whereabouts and instructed police he simply “disappeared one morning.”

Hannah is at present being held at Greenville County Detention Middle and has been charged with two counts of misprision of a felony, two counts of obstruction of justice, and one depend of accent after the actual fact, through the Simpsonville Police Division. She is being held with out bond and each she and her ex-boyfriend John await their subsequent trial dates which haven’t been launched as of but.

Carmen Kelley, a member of the family of Catherine’s, instructed WYFF 4 on Wednesday the household continues to be aching for the lack of their beloved one six years on:

“She was so younger. She by no means had an opportunity to be a mom. She by no means had an opportunity to reside her life and that to me kills me inside.”

Simply heartbreaking. Our hearts are with Cati’s household and family members, we hope she will get the justice she deserves quickly.

[Image via Greenville County Detention Center/YouTube/WYFF News 4]