Elderly Ohio Man Found Frozen to Death in Pond near His Home
On 2/11/21 at 7:27 AM EST
A 76-year-old Ohio man was found dead in a pond near his house, according to police.
The body of the man, who has not yet been named, was discovered frozen in a small landscaping pond at his home in Vermilion, a city in Erie and Lorain counties. He was found after a neighbor asked the police to carry out a welfare check at the property on Tuesday.
When Vermilion police arrived at the house, they found the man frozen with groceries near the scene.
COLD CASE: Mason man charged with 2008 murder of missing MSU student
When Krista Lueth, 34, disappeared in November 2008, her family feared the worst.
She wasn t the type to drop everything and run away, her family and friends told the State Journal in 2008.
Police declared her disappearance a homicide in September 2009, and in 2014, named Brad Cournaya as the sole suspect. Cournaya and Lueth had recently broken up, but her father told the State Journal in 2008 it wasn t clear what led to the break up.
Cournaya, 53, was charged last month with Lueth s murder. Lueth s body was never found.
Lueth s father said after the breakup, Lueth had complained about Cournaya calling her constantly.
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UPS driver discovers man frozen to death in front of his Michigan home
Dmitriy Shapiro
CAMBRIDGE TWP. The body of an 80-year-old man was found frozen in front of his house Wednesday by a UPS employee.
Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers received a call at about 6:15 p.m. from the UPS employee about a person in the roadway outside his residence in the 400 block of Knapp Road in Cambridge Township and dispatched emergency personnel, according to Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Larry Rothman.
State police troopers arrived at the scene and found Richard Theodore Kokochak lying in a curved driveway close to his car.