A Georgia woman was arrested for the murder and years-long identity theft of her girlfriend, a New Yorker who was found dismembered beyond recognition in a burning body bag nearly 18 years ago, according to authorities.

Angel Thompson has been charged with the December 2007 murder of Nicole Alston, a 24-year-old woman from Manhattan who was discovered cut into 13 pieces, with her hands, feet, and head missing in a burning body bag on the side of a quiet Georgia road, Fulton County officials announced at a press conference on Wednesday. 4

“It took a true sociopath to do what happened here,” Clay Bryant, an investigator with the Troup County Sheriff’s Department, said.

The missing parts of Alston’s body were never located, and the condition of her remains led to the 16-year lag in he

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