Remains ID’d as missing Arizona woman; prime suspect died in prison
Feb 16, 2021, 3:00 PM
Nancy Hartz and Robert Lawson Carnochan (Facebook Photos/Mohave County Sheriff's Department)
(Facebook Photos/Mohave County Sheriff's Department)
KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have identified human remains as an Arizona woman reported missing in 2015, but say the main suspect in her death died in prison last year.
Mohave County Sheriff’s officials said skeletal remains were found in a remote area of Topock in May 2019 and were positively identified in December 2020 as those of Nancy Hartz.
They said Hartz was reported missing in July 2015 by family members and was last seen with Robert Lawson Carnochan of Lake Havasu City.
Carnochan was arrested in April 2016 on fraud and credit card theft charges unrelated to Hartz’s death.
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He later was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in Arizona’s prison system and died in prison in September 2020.
Sheriff’s officials said the county medical examiner’s autopsy and forensic anthropology reports last week determined Hartz died from gunshot wounds and the manner of death was homicide.
