Sheriff identifies body found in tractor-trailer
Monday, December 28, 2009 | 11:57 a.m. CST
BY
The Associated Press
LADDONIA— The death of a man found in a tractor-trailer in eastern Missouri has been ruled a homicide.
The
Audrain County Sheriff's Department said Monday that the determination
was made after an autopsy on Saturday. The news release from the department also says the victim
has been identified as 20-year-old James William Boyd McNeely of Ohio.
No details were provided about where in Ohio the man was from.
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38-year-old truck driver, Chester Harvey Jr. of Laddonia, and his
19-year-old son, Chad Michael Harvey of Eolia, have been charged with
abandonment of a corpse. Chester Harvey also faces one count of
kidnapping after a daylong hostage standoff Wednesday involving his
wife and several children.
Court records say Chester Harvey told a tipster he killed a man he had picked up in California.
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