A child found the body and a shoe next to the body that had the Baylor colors.
If it's a 6-10 black man, it's more than likely Dennehy.
I hope the child that found the body will get a lot of psychiatric care.
The StartleGram's report online now:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/6391578.htm Posted on Sat, Jul. 26, 2003
Body found in Waco may be missing basketball player
By Jack Douglas
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
WACO _ Law enforcement officials found a body early Saturday in the area where police had said missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy may have been left for dead.
"We've got the whole area cordoned off," McLennan County Sheriff Larry Lynch said.
"Things are popping. I have all my deputies out there and the crime scene unit," Lynch said.
A police source, who spoke on condition of annonymity, said authorities were nearly certain the body was that of Dennehy. The remains were found in high grass and during an earlier search in the week "we could have walked right by it," the official said.
The remains will be closely examined and a DNA match will be attempted, the official said.
Police had said they were hoping Carlton Dotson, charged in the murder of Dennehy and being held in a Maryland jail, would be returned to Texas to lead authorities to the body.
It is unclear whether Dotson was back in Waco and helped locate the unidentified body.
Up until Friday afternoon police had said little about where Dennehy may be. However, during the early morning hours Saturday a Waco police unit was seen guarding the entrance to a sand and gravel quarry.
Shortly before 8 a.m. Saturday police were seen focusing on one spot near a grove of trees.
A white canopy had been set up in the field, presumably at the exact location where the remains were found.
By late morning, police and sheriff deputies were seen scouring the immediate area through high grass and leaves.