Tallahassee.com
May 9, 2008

DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITERS
Angeline J. Taylor and Nic Corbett

 The body of Rachel Hoffman was found this morning in rural Taylor County. She was last seen about 7 p.m. Wednesday near Forestmeadows Park in northeast Tallahassee.

When the slain Tallahassee woman Rachel Hoffman agreed to assist police in Wednesday’s buy-bust operation, she was facing multiple felony charges and was in a diversion program for possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, said Tallahassee Police Chief Dennis Jones in a news conference today.

“It is not unusual to have known drug dealers or users offer to assist police in narcotics investigations,” Jones said. “Rachel was no exception.”
Hoffman was facing charges of possession of ecstasy with intent to sell, possession of controlled substance with intent to sell, maintaining a drug house and possession of drug paraphernalia, he said.

She agreed to buy 1,500 pills of ecstasy, 2 ounces of cocaine or crack cocaine and a gun from two men who are now suspected of kidnapping and robbing her.

“Unfortunately, Rachel chose to ignore precautions established in a previous briefing as well as the direction of her case agent,” Jones said.

Hoffman left the Forestmeadows Park area, where several police officers were watching her, to go meet Andrea J. Green and Deneilo Bradshaw.

Police tried to stop her, but were unsuccessful, said police spokesman Officer David McCranie. It’s not clear how they lost sight of her or where she went.

Murder charges against Green and Bradshaw are pending, officials said.

Two suspects in Rachel Hoffman's death, Andrea J. Green, left, and Deneilo Bradshaw, led investigators to rural Taylor County, where Hoffman's body was found around 7 a.m. Friday. Hoffman went missing Wednesday after assisting in a police operation.

Video: Police find missing woman dead in Taylor County 

Video: Officer McCranie speaks Democrat reporters about Hoffman case

Video: TPD press conference about Hoffman case

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