Sex offender charged in North Carolina woman's murder

Wednesday, May 3, 2017
ROWAN COUNTY (WTVD) -- Investigators in Rowan County have arrested a registered sex offender in connection with a North Carolina woman's murder.

According to WSOC, authorities arrested 50-year-old Donald Frye and charged him with first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon.
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The Charlotte TV station reports that someone found 53-year-old Sheila Godfrey dead last Friday in her home in Salisbury. Investigators said it appeared Godfrey was "brutally murdered" Thursday evening.

Authorities later found her car, four miles away, at a laundromat. They said Frye was driving the vehicle.

Frye is also accused of stealing Godfrey's debit card.

Officials have not released a motive in the crime but said it was not random, WSOC reported.
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Frye is on the North Carolina Sex Offender registry and was recently released from jail after serving time on a probation violation. He was convicted in 1998 of taking indecent liberties with a minor and second-degree sex offense.



Salisbury is about 40 miles north of Charlotte.

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