Two charged with Murdering Iowa woman, burning body

Updated 8/15/2017

The Medical Examiner confirms the body of a woman found near Clare, Iowa, in Webster County is 26-year-old Jessica Gomez.  Her burned body was discovered Saturday near a gravel road east of Clare.   She had been reported missing last month with her friend, 26-year-old Mackenzie Knigge.  

Photo of Gomez, right, courtesy WHO-TV.

Knigge was located in Indiana.  

She and 25-year-old Philip Williams (Indiana jail photos below) are now charged with First Degree Murder in Gomez's death.   

They are both being held in the Tippecanoe County Jail in Lafayette, Indiana, pending extradition to Iowa.



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