Woman’s body found in wooded area near Turner Turnpike rest stop

A woman’s body was found Monday in a wooded area near a rest stop on the Turner Turnpike in Lincoln County; the Oklahoma Highway Patrol is investigating her death.
OHP Capt. Chris West said troopers on Saturday found and impounded a vehicle from the eastbound rest area at mile marker 171, near Chandler. Troopers had since been looking for the person connected to that vehicle.
“We were investigating who might have left it there,” he said, and that led to them to look for an individual reported as missing.
As part of the probe, troopers began searching the wooded area near that rest stop Monday morning, where they discovered the body of a white female in her early 20s, West said.
The Lincoln County District Attorney’s office asked the OHP to investigate the matter, West said, so troopers secured the area and began processing the scene. A state medical examiner also responded.
While West said troopers believes they know the woman’s identity, they need a positive identification through the state medical examiner before releasing a name.
The medical examiner also will determine the woman’s cause of death.
West said the body was not 31-year-old Michelle Lea Davis of Paden, who has been missing since Thursday.
Okfuskee County authorities found Davis’ car and some belongings Thursday night, just a few miles from her house on U.S. Highway 62 east of Paden.