UPDATE: The Louisvillle Courier-Journal is reporting that Tina Adkins' 16-year old daughter was sentenced in Michigan last month for the murder of her grandmother.

The paper reports that Kristina Adkins was sentenced as an adult to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years.

According to the report, Adkins was 13 in 2006 when she slipped her grandmother, who raised her, a fatal dose of morphine.

Updated at 6 p.m.
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- The family of a Hueysville, Ky., man who was murdered said drugs are responsible, but Kentucky State Police will not discuss a motive now.

Gregory Allen Shepherd's family hoped he would turn up after possibly being on a hunting trip, but the 38-year-old man's body was found early Tuesday in a Knott County field. Police began a missing person's search for Shepherd last Thursday, and the investigation led to three arrests.

Shepherd's common law wife, Tina Adkins, and a mother and son, Susan Morgan and Tommy Crum, all are charged with complicity to commit murder.

"They are all charged equally," said Kentucky State Police Detective Mike Goble.

The three suspects are in the Floyd County Detention Center. After their arrests in the Hueysville/Garrett area, they led police directly to where they could find the body.

Goble said Shepherd's body was found in a field just off of Route 80 with several trauma wounds -- possibly from a knife.

"But we're not ruling out a gunshot," Goble said.

Grieving family members said drug abuse and infidelity involving the suspects may have played a part in the killing.

"Tina was having an affair with her son," said Susan Slone, who is Shepherd's aunt.

His sister Virginia Hamilton said, "Drugs are what caused this."

Goble, however, said the motive is still unclear.

Police said they do not expect any more charges or arrests in connection with Shepherd's death.

The state medical examiner will do an autopsy on Shepherd's body to determine the cause of death. The three suspects each are jailed on $500,000 bonds.

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FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- The body of a missing man was found overnight and three people are behind bars.

Kentucky State Police say they found the body of 38-year-old Gregory Allen Shepherd of Floyd County overnight.

Shepherd was reported missing Thursday. His body was found in the Elk View Point area of Knott County around 6:30 this morning.

The three people arrested in connection with his death are 33-year old Tina Adkins, 41-year old Susan Morgan, and 20-year old Tommy Crum.

All three are from Hueysville, KY. Each is charged with complicity to commit murder. They are being held in the Floyd County Jail.

KSP say the three led them to Sheperd's body.

No word on how Shepherd died.

On Monday, Shepherd's aunt, Susan Slone, told WSAZ's sister station WYMT that someone told her he came home from a hunting trip, got into an argument with someone and then left in his truck.

The family started searching for him when he did not come home that night.