Man found dead in cemetery

MICHIGAN CITY NEWS DISPATCH ^ | 04/13/05 | Georgette Senter

[hoosierboy]

Police say the 40-year-old electrician was shot. Officers are asking for the public's help.

Michigan City police early Tuesday morning responded to a call from a concerned citizen who found a person lying in a grassy area near the entrance to Greenwood Cemetery.

Sgt. Larry Litchford said the call came about 6:40 a.m. He said officers responding to the call found the body of Philip Lanier, 40, 811 York St., in an area near the front entrance of the cem

etery on Tilden Avenue.

Litchford said Lanier suffered a gunshot wound "to his body inflicted by an unknown suspect sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning."

Police would not say if Lanier had been shot at the cemetery or if he had been shot someplace else and his body dumped there. Litchford said police have no suspects or motive for the killing.

Police said Lanier was a family man with a wife and two children and that he had been an electrician working for a firm in Valparaiso.

"At this point in the investigation we are at a loss for a motive for this shooting," Litchford said, adding that Lanier had no police record of any kind, including traffic violations.

Litchford said police believe Lanier's wife heard her husband around 10:30 p.m. She said she went to bed early because she was not feeling well, but thinking she heard her husband entering the house, went back to sleep.

Upon waking up Tuesday morning, she discovered her husband was not home and did not know where he was until told of the discovery of his body by police.

While the police continue to talk to Lanier's family and friends, they have asked the public for help. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Detective Anthony McClintock at 873-1468, Ext. 341, during office hours or at 874-3221 after hours.

[MahaMarty]

Hehehe...hilarious.

[Pablo64]

Note that they were dead corpses. As opposed to...? ;-)

[patton]

Do you think "Litchford" knows his name means "cemetary?"

[Stonewall Jackson]

LOL

Bad, bad, bad.

[Finger Monkey]

I was drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes (breakfast of champions), alone. Eep. Please don't sic the cops on me, I swear I didn't kill the electrician. But I did shoot the sheriff.

[Libloather]

Two cemetery caretakers remove a coffin from a flooded area in the graveyard after the coffin floated up through the ground in St. John's, Canada, on Tuesday April 12, 2005. The city received almost 70 millimeters of rain (about 3 inches) causing flooding and cutting off some roads. (AP Photo/CP, The Telegram/Keith Gosse)

[HereInTheHeartland]

This sounds like one of the voters that Kerry was complaining about. Said a Kerry spokesman "Just because someone has an address that is a cemetery doesn't mean that they should lose their voting rights".

[thag]

So, the portrait that Teeny has is accurate?

Thag never did get into South Park. A cultural deficiency I am sure.....

Love,
Thag

[Finger Monkey]

No, I did a better one, I think her's (of me) is plain and boring. I doctored mine up in another program. I have only seen a couple of South Park episodes. I am a heathen, I do not pay for television.

mail

Kissy, kissy,

Bertha

[dread78645]

... Canada's worst air disaster. A Cessna 172 crashed into a cemetary in Newfoundland ...

College Station, Texas. Pilot and copilot survived and helped the Aggies recover over 350 bodies.

[teenyelliott]

No, the one I did is accurate. Bertha's is her own self portrait as seen through her broken mirror.

She is pretty, not haggard. And everyone who knows her agrees that mine is better.

[Finger Monkey]

No, mine is better. And I am haggard. Though I did manage to get some sleep last night. Teeny only says I'm purdy because I am her older sister and I can kick her butt.

[teenyelliott]

No, mine is better. Shut up.

I am growing tired of you. You cannot beat me up. And you could not win in a street race. Stop the insanity!!!

And you are too purdy. You just won't admit it. Just gotta be the freaking contrarian all the goddang time.

[gimme1ibertee]

Man found dead in cemetery

Really? Alert the media! OOOps,never mind....LOLOL

[thag]

Girls! Girls! If you don't stop it, I'm going to have to spank you both!!!

(Thag says, hopefully)

[Finger Monkey]

oh, thag. mmmm.

Don't listen to her, you know I am hideous, you saw the growth I have growing out of the side of my face.

[dalereed]

"I just found the title hillarious"

If I was sent to find a dead person that's the first place i'd look!

If I was flat lazy i'd go to the closest funeral home.

[Finger Monkey]

She's all talk, I may be shorter, but I'm quick, lick the wind.

[thag]

"She's all talk, I may be shorter, but I'm quick, lick the wind."

Thag almost wet his pants at that one.......Thag pig.....oink oink!

[teenyelliott]

Go ahead, you ignoramous. Lick the wind. See if I care.