Three indicted for concealing dead body of 28 year old Salisbury woman

Kadisha Annette Smith

By Linda Cicoira

Two men and a woman were indicted Monday by an Accomack Grand Jury on counts of concealing the body of 28-year-old Kadisha Annette Smith of Salisbury, Md., and destroying evidence in her death in 2023.

According to reports, Smith’s skeletal remains were found around 9 p.m., in the 30000 block of Green Hill Road in New Church, on June 23, 2023, about 34 miles from where she was last seen.

Thirty-four-year-old Johmon Lawrence Handy, of Plover Road in Salisbury; 35-year-old Amanda Christine Rooks of Naylor Mill Road in Salisbury; and 25-year-old Ronjai Allen Wharton, of Leemont Road in Parksley; were indicted in Accomack on a count of transporting, secreting, concealing or altering the Smith’s body to prevent detection of an unlawful act or to prevent the detection of the death or the manner or cause of death.

They were also accused in Accomack, of destroying physical evidence with the intent to delay, impede, obstruct, prevent, or hinder the investigation, apprehension, prosecution, conviction, or punishment of a person regarding a felony offense.

The crimes are alleged to have occurred on May 25, 2023.

In early June 2023, officials from Wicomico County, Md., were looking for Smith who was reported missing. The officers got word that Smith’s body had been disposed of in Accomack. The victim was initially described as a black female, five feet two inches tall, and about 150 pounds. The mother of four was last seen on Delaware Avenue, in Salisbury.