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New Arrest in Newaygo County Cold Case

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Police arrested a woman in White Cloud in Newaygo County on Wednesday, in connection to the 2004 murder of a teenage girl.

Mushroom hunters found Amanda Lankey's badly beaten body in the Manistee National Forest in July of 2004.

Police never found her killer.

The Newaygo County Prosecutor expects to charge Candace Baumgartner, a former police officer, with two counts of perjury.

He plans to arrest another person for the same crime.

Those charged could spend up to life in prison for the crime.

Amanda Lankey's family hopes the new arrests will bring new answers.

9&10's Alex Jokich looked and photojournalist Jacob Johnson into the new developments in the cold case and have more details.