Bloodstains in Missing Woman's Reno Home
R E N O, Nev., Jan. 31 -- Bloodstains and the remains of a ripped-up carpet were found in the bedroom of a missing Reno woman whose toddler son was abandoned in a Salt Lake City store last week, police said.
Investigators said they discovered the stained carpet and carpet pad removed from the master bedroom and rolled up outside on Wednesday when they went to the home that Jeanette Acord shared with her husband, Lyle Montgomery.
"Examination of the carpet revealed two substantial sized red stains which appeared to be blood and which tested positive for blood with a presumptive chemical test," police Detective Ron Chalmers Jr. wrote in an affidavit.
Police said the bed was missing as well as a dresser and other articles of furniture.
Police went to the home after they learned the identity of a 3-year-old boy who had been left in a ShopKo store in Salt Lake City. Surveillance tape showed the boy, Jonathan Jacob Corpuz, being led into the store by a man later identified as Montgomery, who was later seen leaving the store alone.
The little boy was not able to give his full name, but when his photo was shown on national TV, someone in Reno recognized him and contacted authorities.
Reno police went looking for the boy's mother said they found only his stepfather, Montgomery, lying on a bedroom floor with a loaded gun 20 feet away.
Montgomery, 42, was taken into custody Wednesday night, and police are trying to find out what happened to his wife. Acord, 28, has not been heard from in 10 days.
Police in Reno took the boy's stepfather, Montgomery, into custody Wednesday night and are now treating him as a suspect in Acord's disappearance.
Reno Police Chief Jerry Hoover said authorities are treating Acord's case as a possible homicide. Police say they fear for Acord's safety, partly because of evidence recovered during a search of the couple's Reno home.
"He has violence in his background, and we arrested him for assault with a deadly weapon," Hoover said, referring to an incident in October when police arrested Montgomery after a domestic dispute with Acord. "He had access to numerous weapons, firearms and knives."
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