Hania Aguilar autopsy: Teen's body found in water, under plastic table
An autopsy report released Wednesday provides additional details surrounding the death of Hania Aguilar, the Lumberton teen who was kidnapped in November.
Hania was snatched from the front yard of her Lumberton mobile home on Nov. 5 after she went outside to wait for other relatives to take her to school.
Investigators said that Michael Ray McLellan, 34, of Fairmont, forced the girl into the family's green SUV, which the teen had started, and fled from the area. The vehicle was found within a few days, but Hania's body wasn't located until Nov. 27.
According to the autopsy report, Hania's body was found lying in a wooded area in water.
The body had a "broken plastic table on top and black tire on top of table." The teen was naked when she was found. Authorities said her body had minimal evidence of trauma, but signs consistent with sexual abuse.
Authorities said her body was removed from the area by a dive team, and due to her body being partially decomposed, a specific cause of death could not be identified.
The autopsy report determined the means to death to be most likely "a form of asphyxia."
McLellan was being held in Robeson County Jail on an unrelated kidnapping charge when authorities added the charges in Hania's case.
Two Robeson County deputies are no longer with the department over their actions in a 2016 rape case that is now linked to McLellan.
He remains jailed without bond after authorities charged him with at least 10 felonies, including first-degree murder, first-degree forcible rape and first-degree kidnapping.
