Human remains found by renters at home two years after previous tenants were accused of concealing grandmother’s death

UNSUSPECTING renters were shocked to find a decomposing body underneath their North Carolina mobile home.

A couple charged with felony concealing a death in 2020 has been connected to the severely decomposed human remains that were found on Thursday in Buncombe County.

Investigators were called to the mobile home on Beady Eyed Lane on Thursday afternoon when the current tenants discovered a suspicious object that led to the discovery of human remains near the home.

This was not the first time that investigators have been called to the area.

The home where the remains were found happens to be the same residence that Mark Barnes, 50, and Angela Wamsley, 46, lived in when they were charged in December of 2020 with concealing the death of Wamsley’s 92-year-old grandmother, Nellie Sullivan.

Sullivan’s body has not yet been recovered.

Before moving to the home in Candler, Barnes and Wamsley lived with Sullivan in Asheville before her disappearance around 2018.

The grandmother’s former neighbor and friend, Belinda Moody, told an ABC affiliate that she is hopeful for justice in Sullivan’s case.

“She was a kind, loving person, and she shouldn’t have been treated that way,” Moody said.

“There needs to be justice. She did not look well when they were living with her.”

Among many other charges, Barnes was charged in 2020 with stealing more than $100,000 from Sullivan’s bank account.

Detectives had also discovered that Barnes and Wamsley used prescriptions written to Sullivan to obtain medications.

Both Barnes and Wamsley remain in jail facing multiple charges.

The autopsy for the found remains is currently underway, according to law enforcement.