Sheriff's department asks for help identifying body

By By Steve Gillespie / staff writer
Dec. 19, 2003
The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department is asking for help in identifying the body of a homeless man found Tuesday off Highway 80, near Land Fill Road.
Chief Deputy Mike Mitchell said the body was discovered by a game warden who had gone to the area to check on the man believed to be the deceased. Mitchell said the man had been living in a hobo-type camp, but authorities do not know his name.
Mitchell described the man as white in his early to mid-50s, about 6 feet tall, with a slender build, gray hair and a gray beard.
He said it appears that the man had been dead anywhere from eight months to a year. Mitchell said the man was wearing corduroy pants, a plaid shirt and a gray jacket. Money and food stamps belonging to the man were found.
He is asking anyone with information to call the sheriff's department at 482-9802.