Investigators identify body found off Causeway The man found dead in the Blakeley River on Jan. 2 has been identified as Joshua Pettigrew of Jackson, Miss. Baldwin County Sheriff s Office Posted
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SPANISH FORT – Baldwin County investigators identified the person found dead in water off the Mobile Bay Causeway as Joshua Pettigrew, 28, of Jackson, Miss.
Investigators do not believe that Pettigrew’s death was a homicide, but are still working to determine how the victim died.
On Jan. 2, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a site near Meaher Park when a body was found in shallow water near the Blakeley River. The Alabama Marine Patrol and Daphne Search and Rescue The person had been dead for several days, according to Sheriff’s Office reports.
Body found in waters near Meaher State Park
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
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The body of a deceased adult was found Saturday morning in waters just south of Spanish Fort’s Meaher State Park.
The body has been sent to an Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences lab in Mobile for analysis, Baldwin Country Sherriff Huey Mack said.
Mack said the body appeared to have been in the water for a while.
He also said a boater found the body.
Due to the level of decomposition, investigators are awaiting confirmation on details including the body’s gender and race, as well as possible hints if foul play was involved or not.
27-year-old sought in Montgomery murder
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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Authorities are searching for a 27-year-old man wanted in a deadly Montgomery shooting.
Montgomery and Prattville police, Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies and fire medics were dispatched at 2:52 p.m. that day to the area of Highway 31 at River Bridge after receiving a report of a body found. The body was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for autopsy, which revealed the victim had been shot.
Through their investigation, detectives learned that Thompson had been killed in a different location and dumped at River Bridge. A motive has not yet been released.