The search is over for a missing Laurel County girl, who officials say ran away from her foster parents.


"Of course they wanted to find her alive," said Colan Harrell, Whitley County Sheriff.

Friday night sheriff's deputies searched an area in the Bee Creek Community, when they came across the body of 16-year-old Kayly Lockaby.

"We don't know how she died yet," said Harrell.

Officials say the last time Lockaby was seen was July 26, but deputies say when they found her body, it had been there for two or three days.

"It had been partially decomposed," said Harrell.

Harrell says 21-year-old Skyler Barnett lived in a house just yards away from where Lockaby was found. They also believe Lockaby was there before she died.

Officials arrested Barnett for unlawful transaction of a minor. Police say they also found cocaine and drug paraphernalia in the home.

"It is kind of a shocker to walk up on someone even though you are a police officer. To walk on to someone that is in this state," Harrell said.