For the Record - Public safety news from Tribune staff and wire reportsFarmington police Wednesday evening were investigating the circumstances surrounding a body found in a burning car near the mouth of Farmington Canyon. Police responded to the scene at approximately 6:30 p.m.
Dispatchers say the victim's death is being investigated as a suicide.
Pine Bluff, Ark. — The body of a man was found in a burning car at Graceland Cemetery on Sunday, where he and his wife had gone to visit his mother-in-law's grave, police said. Firefighters received a call to the cemetery at 4:08 p.m., found the car on fire, put out the blaze and recovered the body, said Sgt. Robert D. Rawlinson, a spokesman for the Pine Bluff Police Department.
R.V. Davis, 78, was pronounced dead at 5:02 p.m. by the Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Chad Kelly.
Davis' wife, Joy Davis, told investigators she and her husband went to the cemetery to visit her mother's grave. She said she was at the grave when she heard her husband hollering. She returned to the car and found it on fire, but neither she nor a bystander could get her husband out. She told police her husband was on fire.
Joy Davis, who is elderly andfrail, said her husband had stayed in the car because he was in poor health and couldn't get out without assistance.
Police did not know what caused the fire.