Penny Laine Scott and Travis Timmons are charged with second-degree murder after the body of Kurtis Atkinson was found near Tower Road last April.

A second person has been charged with murder after a man’s body was discovered near Tower Road last April. Article content

At roughly 2:27 p.m. on April 25, Wood Buffalo RCMP were told a bystander had stumbled across the body of a man later identified as Kurtis Atkinson of Fort McMurray. Article content

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Penny Laine Scott, 40, was arrested earlier this month and has been charged with second-degree murder and interfering with a dead body. She appeared in the Fort McMurray Court of Justice on Aug. 25 and her next appearance is scheduled for Sept. 8.

A second person, Travis Austin Timmons, 34, of Fort McMu

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