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MANCHESTER — Human stays found on a remote nation highway of Coffee County this week belong to a womanlike who might have overdosed, authorities said, and a Manchester lady has been charged in tie with a case.
The fundamental remains were detected Tuesday about 6 p.m. on Murfreesboro Highway in a Beech Grove area, Manchester Police Department Assistant Chief Adam Floied said.
Connie Joan Ray, 61, is charged with fake reporting, abuse of a corpse, tampering with justification and appendage after a fact, justice annals show.
The victim’s temperament was not immediately known, pronounced Coffee County District Attorney General Craig Northcutt, and a physique was ecstatic to a Davidson County Medical Exaimer’s office to identify her and establish her means of death.
According to an detain affidavit, on Jun 9 Ray reported a plant had been blank given Jun 2 — though during an investigation, Manchester Police were told that a plant was not blank though had died from a drug overdose.
The confirmation goes onto state Ray found a plant passed during her home in a 800 retard of Emerson Drive and, in an try to destroy justification of an overdose, ecstatic a physique to a 800 retard of Cole Ridge Road, where she attempted to bury a body.
The victim’s stays were detected about 30 yards from a roadway, a confirmation continues.
As of Wednesday Ray remained in a Coffee County Jail on $600,000 bond and police remained on stage Wednesday questioning a case.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is aiding military and prosecutors with a case.
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