Andy McCauley, boyfriend of a missing West Virginia teenager has been arrested for murdering the missing 15-year-old girl

Police followed McCauley, 41, for a week before finding a body on a remote West Virginia mountain road

Riley Crossman vanished May 7, her grandmother last saw her before going to bed – She texted friends until midnight and tried to video call boyfriend around 5am 

Her mother Chantel Oakley reported her missing May 8 after she didn’t show at school and calls from her parents went direct to voicemail 

Cops then put Oakley’s boyfriend 41-year-old Andy McCauley, Jr. under surveillance 

Police K9 dogs traced the odor of a cadaver  to his green Dodge work truck which was gone for four hours and 40 minutes from his construction job on May 8

On May 15, a group of 300 volunteers joined hunt with West Virginia-area agents, the next day a decomposed body was found on Tuscarora Pike in Berkeley County

McCauley admitted taking drugs and told cops he drove his truck to meet dealers on the day

Riley’s mother Chantel Oakley, [right], said she last saw herdaughter [left], when her daughter came to wake her up around 3.30 pm on May 7

Oakley had seen her daughter at 3.30pm that day when she arrived home from school to wake her up for work.
‘I got home from work around 10pm. Her door was shut, so by all accounts she was in her room, but I didn’t actually see her,’ Oakley told Dateline.

She had reportedly texted her boyfriend Haydn at 10.30pm and friends until midnight. She then reportedly attempted to video call her boyfriend around 5.40am via Facebook Messenger on May 8.

Oakley and the girl’s father Lance Crossman said their calls went straight to voicemail that evening as they tried to find her.

Crossman’s boyfriend posted on Instagram a week ago: ‘Doing everything I can to try and find her, I haven’t slept since she’s been missing and I physically cannot sleep or function without her I’m worse than ever right now and I need her to be here and safe.

‘I can’t go any longer without her I just want her with me right now I’ve been worried to death and I just need something to make me feel better but she’s the only one who can do that.. I really hope you’re ok baby just please be safe.’ 

Riley Crossman [L-R], reportedly texted her boyfriend Haydn at 10.30pm and friends until midnight. She then reportedly attempted to video call her boyfriend around 5.40am via Facebook Messenger on May 8.

Police teams searched the area for her and said they were also looking for a possible suspect in the week following her disappearance.

Then on Wednesday a group of 300 volunteers began hunting in collaboration with agencies from Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia Natural Resources Police. A volunteer from the latter discovered a corpse on North Mountain at the 5500 block of Tuscarora Pike in Berkeley County ‘over an embankment in a rural mountain road section’.

While the body has not been identified as Crossman, cops do believe she is dead.

An autopsy will confirm whether it is the Berkeley Springs girl.

McCauley was taken into custody Thursday after being under surveillance at his job in Berkeley County since last week.
He agreed to go to the station and was arrested there.

It was after K9 dogs followed the scent of a cadaver to his work truck. Drywall mud – who to repair holes – splattered in the bed of the truck underneath the utility box carried the scent.

The recovered human remains had drywall mud on the shoulder and foot. 

Andy McCauley [L-R], was taken into custody Thursday after being under surveillance at his job in Berkeley County since last week. He agreed to go to the station and was arrested there

A social media image appears to show McCauley holding mushrooms in his palm. Initially, he denied shooting up on drugs during an interview with police, but later admitted he to his drug use

After police K9 dogs followed the scent of a deceased person to his work truck, McCauley who initially would not admit to driving a work truck, later told police he drove it to collect drugs from unknown persons

The truck was gone from 9am for four hours and 40 minutes the day Crossman disappeared, which contradicted his story of leaving for two hours.

McCauley initially would not admit to driving a work truck but later told police he drove it to collect drugs from unknown people.

A witness said they spotted the vehicle outside his Greenway Drive residence in Berkeley Springs around 10am.

Surveillance video also showed his direction of travel was not consistent with his story but instead with a route on which the body was found if he had traveled from Berkeley Springs to Hedgesville.

A clip showed he traveled east in the green Dodge in the 8000 block of Apple Harvest Drive at 12.41pm but he claimed he drove east on the 9.

ABC 8 reports a witness told troopers he had cocaine on him when he left the work site. He claimed he used the 9 to return to the site and shoot up cocaine with a needle.

He had denied shooting up drugs when asked in another interview, claiming he sniffs instead, but he later admitted he does.

A social media image appears to show him holding mushrooms in his hand.

It’s not clear how long he has been dating Oakley but his Facebook profile states he has been in a relationship since 2004.

Morgan County Sheriff K.C. Bohrer said they had no other reason to suspect other people were involvrd in the case of the missing teen.

On May 15, a group of 300 volunteers joined the hunt with West Virginia-area agents. a day later, a decomposed body was found on Tuscarora Pike in Berkeley County and cops believe it is the missing teen Riley Crossman

Officers found what they believe to be Riley’s body Thursday morning on North Mountain, at 5500 Tuscarora Pike in Berkeley County, West Virginia

Police are waiting to find out the cause of death and how long the body had been there. 

Her school said it was providing counselors to help students process Crossman’s disappearance and possible death.

Thursday evening also saw a prayer vigil take place at Berkeley Springs State Park.

‘We wanted a better outcome,’ Sheriff Bohrer said about locating the remains of who they believe is the Berkeley Springs High School girl. He said McCauley will be charged with murder.

A friend named Jada told LocalDVM.com: ‘She posted online a bit about how she thinks that no one cared about her. So seeing all of this probably would have made her feel so cared about.’

Her former teacher who is a pastor, Josh Rider, said at the gathering: ‘She was able to love, show compassion to kids, that I wish all students could do at her age when I had her in sixth grade.

‘We come today acknowledging that we have lost an individual that we loved, but we come together as a family, and as a community and we are binded together by the Lord and the love that we have for one another.’

A GoFundMe page described Crossman as an ‘exuberant, dependable’ girl.

More than 300 people attended the vigil to remember Riley Crossman on Thursday evening

Anyone with any information, is advised to call the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department at 304-258-1067

It said her father Lance Crossman and stepmother Jess have been positively humbled by the outpouring of love and support to help bring Riley home safely.

The page noted none of the family members had worked since the child vanished.

While they were not asking for monetary donations themselves, the family member who created the crowdfunding page wanted to raise money ‘so that Riley can come home to her normal life, and so that her siblings in each household can live as normally as possible while they are exhausting all efforts to bring their big sister home’.

By Friday they had raised $5,320 of a $10,000 goal towards flyer printing, meals, fuel, postage and advertising fees.

Anyone that has any information, is directed to call the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department at 304-258-1067.