GTV NEWS: Daughter's murder hidden from GR dad... FOR A YEAR!

Daughter's murder hidden from GR dad

 Arkansas police say the people responsible for a woman's death communicated via email with her father, who lives in Grand Rapids. 

The body of Nancy Harvill, who was born in Grand Rapids, was discovered in Fordyce, Arkansas on Jan. 8. Dallas County, Ark. authorities found Harvill's body buried in a shallow grave inside a shed behind the house she had been living in. Three people who also live at the home have been arrested. Harvill's stepbrothers John and Christopher Aldrich, 25 and 24, and her 49-year-old stepmotherSherri Bowen.

The Aldriches and Bowen each face charges of capital murder, kidnapping, first-degree domestic battering, hindering apprehension or prosecution, and abuse of a corpse, according to NBC affiliate KARK out of Little Rock, Ark. Bowen also faces charges of financial identity fraud and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Dallas County authorities believe the murder happened in August 2011, according to KARK. Authorities say Harvill was hogtied and tortured for more than two days following an argument with her brother.

The Aldrich brothers and Bowen allegedly beat Harvill with baseball bats, cast iron pans and furniture and shot with an airsoft gun, among other forms of torture. 

In the 15 months after her death, according to authorities, the suspects sent Harvill's father, who lives in Grand Rapids, emails that he thought were written by her.

He had no idea until recently that she was dead. 

"He contacted her constantly," said Harvill's half-brother Peter Jones. "Not like on an every day basis, so he wouldn't have any suspicion raised about his daughter being missing because he's getting messages."

Harvill's father Homer Jones poke with news station KTHV in Little Rock last week.   

"Makes you want to find the rope from the nearest tree and string them them up, if you don't use them for target practice. I'm at that point," he told KTHV. "It's hard. I'm having a hard time." The suspect also allegedly made up a story that Harvill had left the state and falsified medical, financial and personal documents to cover up the murder.

Investigators say their story held up for over a year until they discovered the body earlier this month and John Aldrich confessed.

WOW... THIS IS WILD... BUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME... I CANT FIGURE OUT WHY "THEY" NEVER REMOVED & REBURIED THE BODY... THEY HAD THE TIME