According to deputies, Charles Lamont Cottingham was arrested Thursday evening for the murder of Kristen Lee Stone, who was found dead in the Cape Fear River in August.
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Cottingham was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond in the Cumberland County Detention Center.
Officials said a fisherman found the woman's body tangled in a tree near Carvers Falls Road.
Stone was originally from Jacksonville, North Carolina but had most recently been living in Greenville
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