Woman charged with giving false information about missing woman

<p>While police say they believe a suspected serial killer is the prime suspect in the disappearance of a hairdresser last year, they also have charged a woman with giving false information about the case.</p><p>Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton said Michelle Grant, 32, of Jasper, was charged Wednesday with making a false statement in connection with the investigation of Patrice Endres.</p><p>Based on Grant's false information, detectives had been looking for a man with a mustache in a white van, authorities said. She gave deputies a detailed description of the man, which led them to canvass the area for security tapes that might help identify him.</p><p>On Wednesday, authorities announced they believed a suspected serial killer jailed in Mobile, Ala., may have killed the woman. Jeremy Bryan Jones already has been accused in three deaths, including that of a Georgia teenager from Douglas County.</p><p>Paxton said investigators believe Jones abducted Endres, 38, in April from her Tamber's Trim-N-Tan hair salon northeast of Atlanta.</p><p>Jones, 31, has not been charged with Endres' disappearance, but he is believed to have taken her to Douglas County and buried her, the sheriff said. Searches using cadaver dogs in the area have indicated at least the former presence of human remains, Paxton said.</p><p>Jones is a former construction worker from Miami, Okla., charged in Mobile County, Alabama, with capital murder in the Sept. 18 slaying of 44-year-old Lisa Nichols, who was raped and shot in her Turnerville home before it was set on fire. He also has been accused of killing a prostitute in New Orleans.</p><p>In Georgia, Jones is charged in the death of 16-year-old Amanda Greenwell of Douglas County, whose remains were found in April. At the time, Jones had lived in Douglasville under the alias John Paul Chapman, the identity of a prisoner he knew.</p>