Wife of a missing Monroe County man charged with murder

MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – The wife of a missing Monroe County man is in jail Monday night, on a $150,000 bond, facing a murder charge.

Ellen Huebner turned herself in Monday morning.

Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said enough evidence has been collected to charge her.

Huebner’s husband, Steven, was reported missing last week by his co-workers.

A body was found Friday, in the back yard of a home on Buck Road that belongs to the couple.

The coroner is waiting on autopsy results, but the sheriff believes he already knows who the victim is.

45-year old Ellen Huebner was charged with murder.

The charge comes after a body was discovered on Friday, outside of this home she shared with her missing husband, Steven Huebner.

Sheriff Cecil Cantrell believes the body is the missing husband, but Coroner Alan Gurley is waiting on the official results from an autopsy before confirming an identity.

“We do have statements from friends of hers that she told that she did do this violent act.”

Cantrell says those statements plus other things helped them develop the case.

“Through her friends and different people is the way that we kind of pieced this together and it’s just been a lot of people. A lot of good investigation that’s went on and as quick as this is happened to put this case together.”

This case has gone from missing person to murder in just under a week.

“Investigators from the Columbus Air Force Base contacted us and late Tuesday. We went out and actually did just a walk through of the house, just to see if we could find Mr. Huebner, and of course, Mrs. Huebner was there and of course, she didn’t really know anything.”

Cantrell said investigators went back out to the couple’s home on Wednesday.

“There’s a canal section behind the house. We even got the Monroe County Search and Rescue team that does a great job by the way, a great job, brought some divers in and we checked that whole canal down there, but we didn’t find anything.”

Suspicion is one thing the sheriff said they did find while they were at the home.

Cantrell said the wife was at the house both days investigators were out there searching for her missing husband.

However, when they returned Friday, she was nowhere to be found, until Monday morning, when she turned herself in to the sheriff’s department.

“She did some things that were out of the ordinary that we noticed and made some statements that kind of were out of the ordinary and we kind of followed up on some things and by being persistent, this is the reason that this came to where it is today.”

Cantrell says he’s not sure if there will be more arrests made.

Huebner’s bond was set Monday afternoon.