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Body of missing airman found in stock tank (TEXAS)
The Associated Press ^ | Mar. 08, 2005 | The Associated Press

Posted on 03/08/2005 1:52:50 PM PST by Dubya

SAN ANGELO -- Authorities have recovered the body of a missing Dyess Air Force Base airman from a stock tank on a West Texas ranch, his stepsister said.

Staff Sgt. Michael Leslie Severance's body was found in 10 to 20 feet of water in a tank 15 miles northeast of San Angelo, Nicole Leighton said Monday. His body had been weighted with cinderblocks, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Severance, 24, had been missing since Jan. 15. He lived in San Angelo but was assigned to Dyess in Abilene, about 90 miles to the northeast.

Leighton said Air Force officials contacted her family Sunday night saying his body had been found. A Dyess spokesman said he could not confirm the family had been contacted.

Six divers searched about four hours before finding the badly decomposed body, officials said. The Tom Green County Sheriff's Office took the body to the Medical Examiner's Office in Lubbock for positive identification.

According to a police report filed by Severance's wife, the airman had been behaving out of character before he disappeared.

Severance was married four months ago and also leaves behind a 5-month-old son.

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Information from: San Angelo Standard-Times, http://www.sanangelostandardtimes.com/


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: airforce; csi; missing; sanangelo; tomgreencounty
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1 posted on 03/08/2005 1:52:50 PM PST by Dubya
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To: Dubya
His body had been weighted with cinderblocks, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Ya think?

3 posted on 03/08/2005 1:57:27 PM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: zoomie2

"his death was ruled a homicide"

They have a start, probably someone he knew....


4 posted on 03/08/2005 1:58:07 PM PST by dakine
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To: Dubya

Sounds like some dirty going's on, thereabouts. Prayers for him and his family.


5 posted on 03/08/2005 1:58:22 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: Dubya
. . . the airman had been behaving out of character before he disappeared.

Might that involve chemicals?

6 posted on 03/08/2005 2:00:17 PM PST by leadpenny
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To: zoomie2

LOL


7 posted on 03/08/2005 2:04:58 PM PST by Dubya (Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
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To: ladtx
I guess thats good detective work I guess.
8 posted on 03/08/2005 2:06:09 PM PST by Dubya (Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
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To: ladtx

Cinderblocks are not healthy, especially close to water


10 posted on 03/08/2005 2:08:44 PM PST by woofie
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To: ladtx
I think that it's obvious that he stole the chains and cinder blocks and tried to escape by swimming across the pond....jeeeezzzze
11 posted on 03/08/2005 2:14:31 PM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Dubya
That's not good.

As an aside, is the CVB motto by any chance "Come to Tom Green County...you'll have a ball"?

12 posted on 03/08/2005 2:16:44 PM PST by RichInOC (...oops, did I post that?)
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To: woofie

If cinderblocks are outlawed, only criminals will have cinderblocks.

Somewhere in Texas, a mobile home is sitting with the frame flat down on the ground! ;-)

But kidding aside, prayers for this man's family....


13 posted on 03/08/2005 2:18:09 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Freedom. Brought to you by the grace of God and the Red, White and Blue...)
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To: Dubya

They didn't say what made them search the tanks.


14 posted on 03/08/2005 2:18:23 PM PST by BBell
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To: Dubya

"Never steal more cinder blocks than you can swim with." We have always said that in the south.


15 posted on 03/08/2005 2:19:12 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
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To: BBell
They didn't say what made them search the tanks.

In West Texas speak, a "tank" is not always a man-made structure. It can also be what the rest of the country calls a "pond." It comes from the Spanish "tanque." The body could have been visible to someone standing at the edge.

16 posted on 03/08/2005 2:28:59 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls

Also such 'tanks' are not very large. If it took several divers 4 hours to find him they must have been searching all the tanks in the area.


17 posted on 03/08/2005 2:48:26 PM PST by TalonDJ
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Just announced on Abilene TV.
The deceased wife is under arrest for "tampering with evidence"

And get this:
$500,000 bail.


18 posted on 03/08/2005 3:03:31 PM PST by 76834
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To: 76834
* The deceased wife is under arrest for "tampering with evidence"

Is that to read the wife of the deceased ?

19 posted on 03/08/2005 3:32:14 PM PST by Buddy B (MSgt Retired-USAF)
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To: Buddy B

Probly, but the wife is under arrest.

Gotta love the FR grammer police.


20 posted on 03/08/2005 3:36:47 PM PST by 76834
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