60歳の男性が女性を絞め殺し、サウスカロライナ州の自宅の裏庭に彼女を埋めようとしました, しかし、持っていた “心臓イベント” ピットをカバーする過程で死んだ, according to a news release from the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to the home in Trenton on Saturday morning for calls of an unresponsive man lying in his yard. Deputies identified him as Joseph McKinnon, who had no signs of trauma “and natural causes were suspected,” リリースは言った.
As deputies notified the next of kin, a second body was found in the freshly dug pit, リリースは言った. Officials identified those remains as Patricia Dent, 65, who also lived at the home.
凹み “appeared to have died by foul play,” リリースは言った.
An investigation led deputies to believe McKinnon attacked Dent inside their home, リリースは言った. Deputies said McKinnon then bound and wrapped her in trash bags before putting her in the previously dug pit in the yard.
While he was covering the pit in, McKinnon had a cardiac event that caused his death, リリースは言った.
The Edgefield County Coroner’s Office ruled McKinnon’s cause of death to be natural causes. Dent’s death was due to strangulation.
Trenton is about 25 miles northeast of Augusta, ジョージア.
