United States US: South Carolina man dies burying woman he strangled
Washington/IBNS: A US man died of a cardiac arrest in the backyard of his house in South Carolina as he was burying a woman he strangled, media reports said.
Officials responded to reports of an unresponsive man in the town of Trenton and found 60-year-old Joseph McKinnon dead, Edgefield County Sheriff Jody Rowland and County Coroner David Burnett said in a statement carried by local media Tuesday.
"McKinnon had no signs of trauma and natural causes were suspected," the statement said.
"While investigating the death and making notifications to the next of kin, a second body was located in a freshly dug pit. Patricia Ruth Dent, 65, of the same address appeared to have died by foul play," the statement added.
Dent was found bound and wrapped in trash bags in the pit.
Autopsies carried out confirmed the causes of both deaths.
Evidence and witness statements indicated that McKinnon had attacked Dent in their home.
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