Overview

• Brittany Fuhr-Storms, 28, was discovered inside a sealed plastic tote on Fort Anthony Road on August 3 and an autopsy confirmed she was pregnant when she died.
• A narcotics search warrant at James R. Rothenbusch’s Logan Avenue home uncovered drugs, a bloodstain on the carpet, towels and a tarp matching those wrapped around the victim’s body.
• Rothenbusch allegedly admitted to drug trafficking, to keeping Fuhr-Storms’s body in his residence for four days and to disposing of her remains on a rural roadway.
• Ricky J. Sheppard was arrested in Middletown after telling investigators the victim overdosed and that her body remained in the home for about a week before he helped move it.
• The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office has not yet ruled on the cause or manner of death as investigators pursue forensic testing and a joint criminal probe.