SHERMAN, TX -- Bond was set at $500,000 for a man arrested for murder, after police say he killed his child's mother and then later contacted them to report that she was missing.
Police were called to the home around 6 p.m. on Thursday evening, where a man said his girlfriend Sarah Swaim, 22, had been missing since the night before.
"He actually said the last time had seen her was February 6th at 10 in the evening," says police Sgt. D.M. Hampton.
But while talking to Gregory Bailey, 31, officers say they found evidence inside the trailer that something was very wrong.
"They worked tirelessly throughout the night on what they had, early the next morning they were able to go out and search for the body," says Hampton.
"She came home from work and there was like four or five police officers there, woke up in the morning went to get something to eat and there was even more there, and then they were you know circling the premises," says neighbor Benjamin Gillam.
The search in a wooded area near the Shadow Mountain mobile home park on F.M. 1417 on Friday morning yielded nothing.
Swaim's body was found early Friday afternoon in a rural area east of Denison, Hampton says. Around 5 p.m. Friday, police say they questioned and arrested Bailey at a home on West Star Street in Denison.
"Right in front of the house right by the mailbox there," says neighbor Betty Washburn.
Neighbors at the mobile home park say the couple lived here for about a year, and they heard and saw them fighting on several occasions. One woman says she even called the police a few times, but when officers would show up, no one would answer the door.
"That somebody four houses down could kill somebody, and it's been quiet around here, it kind of scares you a bit," says Gillam.
"I didn't want to let my kids play outside without an adult," says one neighbor.
Neighbors say the couple had a baby gir who will now grow up without a mother. "It's just a real tragedy that somebody that young has to die you know," says neighbor Bart Tadlock.
Hampton says investigators do not want to reveal exactly where Swaim's body was found, but that evidence found both there and at the home led them to arrest Bailey.
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