Was James Chambers's Body Ever Found? Details on His Disappearance

James Chambers went missing in 2014. Howard Ashleman pleaded to blame to James's murder, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions.

Since 1992, Dateline has been investigating essentially the most atypical and compelling mysteries. In the Season 30 episode, "The Bridge," the series sheds a mild on James Allan Chambers's 2014 disappearance. While Howard Ashleman recently sits in jail for Chambers's murder, there are still a large number of unanswered questions on this case.

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James Chambers went lacking in August of 2014.

In 2014, James Allan Chambers II, a 28-year-old building worker and lifeguard from Fayetteville, N.C., went lacking. According to an editorial from ABC 11 at the time, Chambers vanished on Aug. 15 and left at the back of his dog and all of his personal belongings at house.

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At the time, Chambers was dwelling in a room that he was renting from Brandi Sugrue. Brandi and her husband weren't home on Aug. 15 when Chambers's good friend, who was later identified as Howard Ashleman, picked him as much as power him to his lifeguarding job. When they got here house, they found evidence that Chambers had modified garments, fed his canine, and brought his mobile phone with him that day.

"He mentioned a falling out with somebody a few weeks ago, maybe a month, but he did not seem overly concerned about it," Brandi instructed the hole at the time.

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Ashleman was arrested for Chambers's homicide in 2018.

For years, this situation was left open because of loss of proof. According to the Fayetteville Observer, Ashleman stayed quiet in regards to the homicide for years and was now not linked to it till he moved to Florida and started discussing it with a girl he was seeing, who would later turn into his spouse. She recorded Ashleman talking about Chambers at least once prior to telling the police. Ashleman was interviewed via the police and remained a suspect, however was no longer immediately arrested.

Unfortunately, because Chambers's body was by no means found, that they had little evidence against Ashleman instead of the recording. Eventually, Ashleman got a legal professional and negotiations for him to give up and plead to blame started in January of 2017. In Feb of 2018, Ashleman was charged with first-degree homicide and theft with a perilous weapon for his function in Chambers's disappearance, in keeping with a remark from Fayetteville Police.

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Ashleman instructed investigators that he had to begin with burned and buried Chambers's body within the Wade space of Cumberland County. However, he later dug up the body, dismembered it, and tossed it into Cape Fear River. To these days, Chambers's body has still no longer been found. Ashleman is these days incarcerated at Columbus Correctional Institution in Whiteville, N.C.

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In Dateline: The Bridge, reporter Andrea Canning recounts the details of the case with Chambers's parents Rachel Wellhauser and Pete Chambers, as well as personal investigator David Marshburn.

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