Biker Gang_s 14-Year Secret_ The Savage Murder Of Ava Dehart _ The New Detectives

She managed his motorcycle shop. She shared his home for years. Then she vanished. The boyfriend told police she ran away. Her sister never believed him. Fourteen years later, a private investigator found Ava DeHart's skeleton at the bottom of a dry well.In July 1982, 26-year-old Ava DeHart disappeared from Stafford County, Virginia. Her live-in boyfriend, George Christ Sparta, owned the Jokers Wild motorcycle shop where Ava worked as manager [citation:1]. Police questioned him at the time but found nothing to name him a suspect [citation:2]. The case went cold. For fourteen years, Debbie DeHart refused to accept that her sister had simply run away.In August 1996, private detectives hired by Debbie led police to an abandoned well in Orange County [citation:1]. Under two feet of dirt and debris, investigators found skeletal remains. Dental records confirmed the identity. It was Ava [citation:2]. The state medical examiner could not determine the cause of death. A forensic anthropologist from the Smithsonian was called in to examine the bones [citation:1]. The case had shifted from missing person to homicide.George Christ Sparta was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, in November 1996 and charged with first-degree murder [citation:1]. A key witness reportedly saw the body being dumped into the well. Debbie finally had her answer.Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the biker gang's secret stayed buried for fourteen years. Then the well gave up its dead.