Authorities Investigating Dead Body Found in Rural Marion County
A citizen driving on Nevada Street NE around 6:15 p.m., saw a body off the side of the road and called police.
(SALEM, Ore. ) — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office, along with the state Medical Examiner and the Marion County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the discovery of a dead body found Friday evening in rural northeast Salem.
A Marion County Sheriff’s spokesman says a citizen driving on Nevada Street NE around 6:15 p.m., saw a body off the side of the road and called police. Deputies and fire personnel arrived, and verified that there was a body.
The spokesman said the body was in a state of decomposition that authorities were not able to tell if the body was that of a male or female, and if the person died of natural causes or if foul play was involved.
Salem News Journal will have more on this story as soon as it becomes available.
Video from the scene Friday by Salem News Journal photographer Jerry Freeman:
