Man tracked ‘high-profile’ deaths, led him to theft Greg Biffle’s Lake Norman home
A Georgia man was charged with breaking into the late Greg Bifflle’s Lake Norman and stealing memorabilia, cash and guns, just weeks after the NASCAR star driver died in a plane crash, the Iredell County sheriff said Tuesday.
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Authorities in Georgia arrested Terrell Williams, 44, of Stone Mountain, Ga., and recovered multiple items belonging to the NASCAR star driver, Sheriff Darren Campbell said at a news conference.
Authorities said Williams used some of the stolen cash to buy a vehicle from a dealership, which was seized in Georgia and is now in custody of the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office. Williams was arrested the morning of July 2 by the Cobb County Police Department, who contacted the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office after, Campbell said. Williams had been arrested there in connection of a separate burglary.
He was charged with multiple felonies, including larceny after breaking and entering, second-degree burglary and safe cracking.
The sheriff’s office is investigating if others may have been involved, Campbell said.
Biffle, his wife and two kids, and three others died in a plane crash at Statesville Regional Airport on Dec. 18. A person caught on surveillance broke in and stole $30,000 in cash, NASCAR memorabilia and two Glock handguns when they broke in on Jan. 7, authorities said in April.
Williams is being held in jail in Georgia on no bond. Campbell said his agency will extradite Williams back to North Carolina.
Williams had a history of breaking into homes and stealing items when he knew they would be empty, Campbell said. He would look on social media and read headlines to pick which homes to target.
Williams was accused of picking a home in Cobb County, Ga., to burglarize that was the site of a “highly publicized homicide,” Campbell said. During the investigation into Williams, deputies recovered a police officer’s firearm that had been stolen in western North Carolina years ago and returned it, Campbell said.
“During the execution of our search warrants, investigators also recovered an RF or radio frequency detector,” Campbell said. “This type of device can be used to locate cameras and otherwise wireless security equipment.”
It’s believed Williams used this device when breaking into Biffle’s home, the sheriff said. Video from the break-in showed the suspect carrying an electronic device. Authorities believe that device was the RF detector, Campbell said.
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Cell phone data also placed Williams near Biffle’s property at the time of the break-in. A license plate reader also helped track down Williams’ vehicle registration. Campbell said that despite surveillence footage being low-quality, his office is confident the correct suspect was arrested.
“We can put him at the residence. We know that at the time,” Campbell said. “I can put him doing surveillance at that specific residence prior to.”
Campbell said another investigation involving Biffle’s bank accounts is still ongoing. Authorities said there was “suspicious activity” on an email and bank accounts owned by the Biffles the day after the plane crash.
Authorities previously said they believed that the home break-in was part of a “more elaborate plan” to steal the driver’s wealth involving his friends.
No one has been arrested in that case, but there is a person of interest and the investigation spans multiple states, Campbell said Tuesday.
“Email addresses to accounts were changed, as well as phone numbers and passwords” and “fraudulent activity” started on a Venmo account run by Biffle’s wife, Cristina Grossu, according to a warrant. Grossu also died in the plane crash.
Account information was changed over the phone on Biffle’s accounts at United Carolina Bank on Dec. 29, a sheriff’s deputy said in April. A fraudulent check was cashed at a UCB branch in Columbia from Biffle’s account the day after on Dec. 30.
“Another three checks were attempted from the same account at different UCB branches in South Carolina,” according to the warrant. It didn’t say if the attempts were successful.
Sheriff’s deputies said evidence showed multiple people knew Biffle’s account information, as well as key details of his life like Social Security numbers, birthdays and passwords. And a woman seen at a celebration of Biffle’s life matched the features of a person seen on surveillance video at the house break-in, a search warrant said.
A license plate reader showed the woman’s pickup truck near Biffle’s home just before the break-in. The woman was a friend of Grossu, a warrant said.
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Williams was not charged with accessing Biffle’s bank accounts, Campbell said.
This story was originally published August 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM.
