DANVILLE, Va. — Police said Thursday that a body found in rural Virginia may be that of a Raleigh man who has been missing since last weekend, Raleigh NBC affiliate WRAL-TV reported.
Andy Banks, 39, who was last seen Saturday afternoon in the Woodburn Road area near Cameron Village. Friends said he was meeting a potential Craigslist buyer about his silver 2011 Range Rover Sport.
Police said Wednesday that they had evidence of foul play in Banks' disappearance and were investigating the case as a homicide.
The body found in Chatham, Va. by the Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Office will be sent to a coroner in Roanoke, Va. for an autopsy and positive identification, police said.
Police found that same Range Rover on Monday in Danville.
Investigators arrested 34-year-old Justin Merritt, of Danville, for stealing the car.
Close friends say Banks grew up in Gaston County. He graduated from Ashbrook High School in 1999.
“He never meets a stranger and he really has a way with people that they gravitate towards him and they want to be around him,” his sister Dede Banks-Smith told WCNC Charlotte.
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