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Body found in cemetery

By Steve Herring
Published in News on December 3, 2009 1:46 PM

News-Argus/STEVE HERRING

Wayne County Sheriff\'s Office detectives are investigating the discovery of a body at Evergreen Cemetery on U.S. 70 West as a possible homicide, said Capt. Tom Effler.\n\nCemetery employees discovered the body of a while man when they came to work this morning, investigators said. They called Wayne County Emergency Services, who then called the Sheriff\'s Office.\n\nIt was discovered in a relatively unused portion of the cemetery, less than 100 yards from the highway.

Wayne County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating the discovery of a body at Evergreen Cemetery on U.S. 70 West as a possible homicide, said Capt. Tom Effler.

Cemetery employees discovered the body of a white man when they came to work this morning, investigators said. They called Wayne County Emergency Services, who then called the Sheriff's Office.

The body had not been identified as of press time.

It was discovered in a relatively unused portion of the cemetery, less than 100 yards from the highway.

A passer-by called the newspaper to say that the body was covered in blood from the waist up.