An Orange Country jury indicted nine suspects on Monday in connection with the Joshua Bailey murder case.
Indicted on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges were Brian Gregory Minton, 18, Jacob Alexander Maxwell, 18, Matt Johnson, 21, Brandon Hamilton Green, 26, Ryan Ladar Davis Lee, 20, and Jack Johnson II, 19, all of Chapel Hill.
Brian Minton’s parents, Gregory Lee Minton, 41, and Mishele Slade Minton, 37, of Chapel Hill, and Chris Manley, 23, of Carrboro, were indicted as accessories to murder.
Bailey’s remains were uncovered off Big Woods Road in Chatham County in early September, after a Silver Alert was issued in late July.
According to investigators, Bailey was shot and killed and buried in a wooded area off Twisted Oak Drive in Chapel Hill. Gregory and Mishele Minton and Chris Manley are charged as accessories to murder for assisting with moving the body.