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/
How about: grammar
grammer = a common misspelling.
When it said it took 6 divers 4 hours I assumed they had a tip. If it was visible it should have been easy to find.
True.
"The deceased wife is under arrest for "tampering with evidence"
Sounds like she was having an affair, they killed him then she was trying to cover up the missed tracks.
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