Man who vanished from blood-soaked sober living home turns up dead in ‘wooded’ area, housemate arrested for his murder and another killing: Cops

Insets: Stephen Walker and his alleged killer Johnny Rankin Morris (El Paso County Sheriff

Insets, from left: Stephen Walker and his alleged killer Johnny Rankin Morris (El Paso County Sheriff’s Office/Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department). Background: The sober living home where Stephen Walker and Johnny Rankin Morris were living together (KOAA/YouTube).

The body of a man who disappeared from a Colorado sober living home last month — with cops finding large amounts of blood strewn throughout the residence, sparking a search for him and another man who lived there — was found in a “wooded area” on Friday, prompting cops to charge the housemate with murder after he was caught on the run with a woman in Mississippi.

Johnny Rankin Morris, 46, has not only been charged with Stephen Walker’s murder in El Paso County but also a killing in Park County as well, according to local police officials. He was caught by cops in Pearl River County, Mississippi, on Dec. 30 for an unrelated crime and is now awaiting extradition on charges of first-degree murder, tampering with a deceased human body and tampering with physical evidence following the discovery of Walker’s remains.

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