The bodies of two of the mother’s adopted children were discovered charred in a barrel; according to police, the children had been there for years. The woman is currently being held in jail in North Carolina.
According to a news statement from the Fayetteville Police Department, Avantae Deven, 63, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, concealing a death, kidnapping, and criminal child abuse.
Blake Deven and London Deven, the latter of whom had special needs, are the people she is suspected of killing. Police first believed London Deven was last seen in 2019, but Blake hadn’t been seen since 2022. But it wasn’t until March that their mother reported them missing…