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South Carolina police solved a girl’s homicide after her killer dropped useless whereas burying the physique in his yard.
Police responded to a 911 name about an unresponsive man within the yard of a Trenton dwelling on Saturday.
Sheriff Jody Rowland mentioned deputies responded to the house to examine on “an unresponsive male mendacity in his yard.”
Deputies discovered Joseph McKinnon’s physique close to a freshly dug grave. Whereas investigating his demise deputies inspected the makeshift grave and located the physique of McKinnon’s girlfriend Patricia Dent, 65.
Authorities theorize that McKinnon, 60, killed Dent inside the house then buried her physique within the yard. He was within the strategy of overlaying the opening with grime when he suffered an obvious cardiac arrest and died.
An post-mortem decided Dent died by strangulation. Her physique was certain and wrapped in trash luggage earlier than being positioned within the gap. The grave was partially full of grime when McKinnon collapsed and died.
McKinnon and Dent lived within the dwelling collectively. She was speculated to be at work on the Mount Classic golf course the day she died, however she did not present up and did not reply to calls and texts in response to experiences.
