Cassie Carli

Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson on Sunday said Carli's body was found Saturday in a shallow grave.

“Hopefully the needle.” The sheriff said the department’s entire Major Crimes Unit – which is made up of 10 detectives – has been working around the clock on the case. Johnson said he met Sunday morning with Carli’s family to notify them of her death. “They’re crushed,” he said. Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson on Sunday said Carli’s body was found Saturday night in a shallow grave. “He never cooperated with us at all,’' Johnson said. The tampering charge, Johnson said, deals with Carli’s cell phone. It is terrible.” “I think either he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison or he’s going to get the needle,’' Johnson said. “Think about it. Johnson said Spanevelo has not been cooperative in the investigation and has said only one word - “lawyer.” The sheriff did not say where the body was found but named the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office and the Springville Police Department as assisting in the search.

The body of missing Florida mother Cassie Carli was found in a shallow grave at an Alabama barn, according to deputies.

Police have discovered the body of missing Florida woman Cassie Carli in a "shallow grave" in Alabama, the Santa Rosa County, Florida, sheriff said Sunday.

He said he was unaware of any previous criminal record on Spanevelo.The sheriff praised the Major Crimes Unit for its work on the case." She was reported missing the next day.Carli's car and her purse were recovered Tuesday on a "boat overflow ramp" near the restaurant, investigators said.The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook Saturday that Spanevelo had been arrested in Lebanon, Tennessee, by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and state troopers.Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said in a news conference Sunday that the Major Crimes Unit had traveled over 1,500 miles in a week, searching for evidence relating to Carli's disappearance." Police have discovered the body of missing Florida woman Cassie Carli in a "shallow grave" in Alabama, the Santa Rosa County, Florida, sheriff said Sunday.Carli, 37, was last seen on March 27 when she met Marcus Spanevelo -- the father of her 4-year-old daughter -- for a child exchange in the parking lot of a Navarre Beach restaurant, authorities said. We discovered her body while executing a search warrant in Alabama. It was in a barn, in a shallow grave," Johnson told reporters.The sheriff said police were not yet revealing what led them to the location Saturday evening, but that the property was linked to Spanevelo "in a roundabout way." Carli's daughter was located Wednesday with Spanevelo in Birmingham, Alabama. On Sunday, Johnson said that she was safe and with family.Spanevelo is being held in Tennessee on charges of tampering with evidence, giving false information concerning a missing persons investigation and destruction of evidence, the sheriff's office said. Spanevelo allegedly took Carli's phone "and basically got rid of it," Johnson said in a news conference Sunday.Asked if Spanevelo had cooperated with investigators, the sheriff said "absolutely not."

The Navarre mother was last seen alive on Sunday, March 27, when she met with her ex, Marcus Spanevelo, to swap custody of their child. Sheriff Bob Johnson said ...

The sheriff said Carli’s four-year-old daughter was found unharmed and is now in a safe environment. The sheriff said Spanevelo has a connection to the property where Carli’s body was found, but he would not reveal what led them to search the barn. NAVARRE, Fla. (WALA) - Investigators said Cassie Carli was found buried in a shallow grave inside of a barn in Alabama.