BURLINGTON — A 42-year-old woman has been charged with murder in the 1999 death of a Covington waitress and bartender whose remains were found near Hebron in 2000.

        Deborah L. Huiett was arrested and taken to Boone County Fridayfrom Albemarle, N.C., said sheriff's deputies, who gave few other details about her.

        She is charged in the death of Tina Rae Stevens, 45, whose body was found April 10, 2000, near the intersection of Point Pleasant Road and Mineola Pike.

        Authorities believe she was killed in May 1999.

        Ms. Huiett is cooperating with authorities, and another arrest in the long unsolved case is anticipated, deputies said. Ms. Huiett also was charged with tampering with physical evidence. She is to be arraigned this morning in Boone County Court.

        Ms. Stevens worked at several taverns in Kenton and Boone counties. She and Sam Stevens of Boone County had been divorced five years at the time of her disappearance, family members told The Enquirer in 2000, when authorities were still stymied in their investigation of the case.

        Sheriff's deputies did not explain Sunday how they came to arrest Ms. Huiett.

        Ms. Stevens' daughter, Michelle Lyons of Edgewood, said she last saw her mother as the woman boarded a TANK bus on 3L Highway headed for home. Several days later, she spoke to her by telephone but never heard from her after that.

        “The means in which her life was taken was both brutal and horrific,” a cousin, Tanya Maddin, said in 2000. “We live each day with memories and visions of Tina and her life and how she lived and how beautiful her life was.”

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