Crime

Boyfriend charged with bludgeoning, strangling Macon woman

A little more than a day after 58-year-old Brenda Gail Faulkner was found bludgeoned and strangled to death in the bedroom of her boarding house, police are looking for her boyfriend, who is charged with murder.

Jessie Gray, 49, is wanted by the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, it said in a news release Friday afternoon.

Faulkner’s body was discovered Thursday morning at her house at 1776 First Avenue in Macon’s Pleasant Hill neighborhood.

For more on this story, return to Macon.com and read Saturday’s Telegraph.

Laura Corley: 478-744-4334, @Lauraecor

This story was originally published February 17, 2017 at 4:42 PM with the headline "Boyfriend charged with bludgeoning, strangling Macon woman."

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