Crime & Safety

Parents Of Girl, 10, Who Died In Loganville House Fire Missing: Police

Gwinnett police are searching for the parents of the 10-year-old girl who died in a house fire on Easter.

Gwinnett Police Department said they are looking for 47-year-old William Linn McCue and 38-year-old Carina Wisniewski McCue. According to police they were last seen driving a 2017 white Honda Accord near I-85 north and Oakbrook Parkway in Norcross.
Gwinnett Police Department said they are looking for 47-year-old William Linn McCue and 38-year-old Carina Wisniewski McCue. According to police they were last seen driving a 2017 white Honda Accord near I-85 north and Oakbrook Parkway in Norcross. (Photo courtesy of the Gwinnett County Fire Department)

LOGANVILLE, GA — The parents of the 10-year-old girl who was killed in the Loganville house fire started by her brother are wanted by the police.

According to the Gwinnett Police Department, they are looking for 47-year-old William Linn McCue and 38-year-old Carina Wisniewski McCue. Their last known location was Hometown Suites on North Brown Road in Lawrenceville and they were last seen driving a 2017 white Honda Accord (GA tag CHB7385) near Interstate 85 north and Oakbrook Parkway in Norcross.

Both William and Carina have been charged with cruelty to children in the first and second degree and false imprisonment.

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The fire took the life of Zoe McCue on Easter Sunday and her brother was arrested for setting the fire. Police charged the boy with malice murder, felony murder and arson.

Investigators discovered that the children were sometimes locked in their bedrooms for days or months, not allowed to see anyone, including each other. Food was very limited and the children were malnourished and had no medical or dental care.

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Related: Children Lived In ‘Deplorable’ Home Before Loganville Fire Killed Girl

Investigators discovered unsanitary and dangerous living conditions in the home, they said.

Arson investigators, along with investigators from the police department’s Special Victims Unit, located improvised camping-style toilet seat buckets and non-usable toilets. The kitchen sink had also been re-plumbed for the water from the faucet to go into a 5-gallon bucket on the floor. Additionally, the showers and bathtubs were not working in the home.

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