Testimony begins in homicide case involving missing Battle Creek woman yet to be found
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Derek Horton filed a missing person s report with the Battle Creek Police Department on June 24, 2020, stating he had last seen his girlfriend Amber Griffin two nights before. Horton was charged three days later with one count of open murder. Griffin s body is yet to be found. (MLive file photo | Joel Bissell)Joel Bissell | MLive.com
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BATTLE CREEK, MI Preliminary testimony began Tuesday in the homicide case involving the boyfriend of a missing Battle Creek woman presumed dead.
Derek Depree Horton, 26, was charged June 27 with killing his 27-year-old girlfriend Amber Griffin, who he had reported missing to the Battle Creek police three days earlier. Griffin still has not been found by police or heard from by family members or friends, according to police.
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