Three Cole County residents were formally charged, Wednesday, in connection with the finding of the body of a woman, Monday, near Russellville.
Susan Nicoloazzo, 52, Russellville, Levi Holder, 28, Henley and Bobby Kirchner, 41, Russellville were each charged with one count of abandonment of a corpse.
The probable cause statement in each file contains little information, but does say each suspect knew the victim, Samantha Rhein, 23, was dead and each admitted to helping moving her body to another location.
Sheriff's department officials said Rhein's body was found, decomposing, in a wooded area off of Route AA, southeast of Russellville.
Authorities said a fourth suspect that had been taken into custody, a man, was released.
Each of the three that were charged were being held in the Cole County Jail on $100,000 bond.
Autopsy results on Rhein's body, which was taken to Columbia for examination, are still pending. With that in mind authorities said it is possible more charges and more arrests could be coming, depending on those results.
Rhein had been missing almost a week. Rhein's mother asked the sheriff's department at 12:30 p.m. Monday to check on Samantha's well-being, reporting she got a text message from her daughter on Aug. 4, asking her mother to come get her.
But the mother had not heard anything, since.
The sheriff's department started an investigation Monday afternoon and began running down leads which led to the discovery of Rhein's body.
Wednesday, sheriff's officials could not say if there were any markings on the body that could give them information as to how Rhein died.