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Man found dead in cemetery
MICHIGAN CITY NEWS DISPATCH ^ | 04/13/05 | Georgette Senter

Posted on 04/13/2005 10:34:36 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: banglist; cemetary; dead; nokidding; really
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To: Pablo64

Hehehe...hilarious.


61 posted on 04/13/2005 5:36:10 PM PDT by MahaMarty (This'll probably get me suspended...AGAIN!)
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To: MahaMarty
Note that they were dead corpses. As opposed to...? ;-)
62 posted on 04/13/2005 6:11:27 PM PDT by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: hoosierboy

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


63 posted on 04/13/2005 6:14:10 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write." <--Profit-Motivated Muse, eh?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
LOL

Bad, bad, bad.

64 posted on 04/13/2005 6:16:11 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
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To: thag
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.
65 posted on 04/13/2005 6:16:21 PM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
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To: hoosierboy

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)
66 posted on 04/13/2005 6:18:39 PM PDT by Libloather (Start Hillary's recount now - just to get it out of the way...)
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To: hoosierboy
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".
67 posted on 04/13/2005 6:23:17 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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To: BerthaDee; teenyelliott

So, the portrait that Teeny has is accurate?

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

Love,
Thag


68 posted on 04/14/2005 5:57:37 AM PDT by thag (Notice how they call it a "Thagline"?)
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To: thag

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


69 posted on 04/14/2005 7:37:26 AM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
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To: Squawk 8888
... 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.

70 posted on 04/14/2005 7:42:46 AM PDT by dread78645 (Sarcasm tags are for wusses.)
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To: thag; BerthaDee
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.
71 posted on 04/14/2005 8:54:52 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green is made of liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott; thag

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.


72 posted on 04/14/2005 9:10:00 AM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
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To: BerthaDee; thag
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.
73 posted on 04/14/2005 9:29:24 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green is made of liberals...)
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To: hoosierboy

Man found dead in cemetery

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


74 posted on 04/14/2005 9:31:39 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee
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To: teenyelliott; BerthaDee

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

(Thag says, hopefully)


75 posted on 04/14/2005 9:32:07 AM PDT by thag (Notice how they call it a "Thagline"?)
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To: thag
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.

76 posted on 04/14/2005 9:33:18 AM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
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To: hoosierboy

"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.


77 posted on 04/14/2005 9:35:11 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: teenyelliott; thag

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


78 posted on 04/14/2005 9:40:42 AM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
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To: BerthaDee; teenyelliott

"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!


79 posted on 04/14/2005 9:42:17 AM PDT by thag (Notice how they call it a "Thagline"?)
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To: BerthaDee; thag

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


80 posted on 04/14/2005 9:46:39 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green is made of liberals...)
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