Six people were arrested Thursday and charged in connection with investigations into a body found in Greer.
The body was found by law enforcement after receiving information from a man on Monday that a body may be buried at a Greer address.
Deputies found the body of 41-year-old Ivan Vladimirovich Gula that day with several stab wounds and buried in a shallow grave.
An investigation over the week has led to the arrest of six individuals in total so far:
- 38-year-old Kurt Russell Knutson for accessory after the fact
- 39-year-old David Jeffery Stokes for murder and kidnapping
- 33-year-old Audrea Jones Cook for murder and kidnapping
- 35 year-old Bobby Ray Smith for murder and kidnapping
- 45-year-old Jeffery Michael George for murder and kidnapping
- 42-year-old Patrick Shane Poole for murder and kidnapping
Lieutenant Ryan Flood stated in a press release that the location of the murder is still unknown, but that it was believed to have occurred on December 1st and that the altercation likely began in a mobile home on C and S Drive.
The investigation is still ongoing.





