Jul 17, 2019

Police Investigating Dead Body Found Near St. Joseph

A dead body was found in a car near St. Joseph on Sunday.

The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of an SUV stuck off the side of a dirt path. The caller also reported that there was an elderly woman in the front passenger seat that appeared dead. The woman was identified as 75-year-old Joyce Marie Barnes of St. Joseph.

An investigation determined that Barnes had been driving her SUV and gone off the road down a dirt path off of County Road 4. The dirt path became narrower and eventually reached a point that it wasn’t wide enough for a vehicle. The driver side of Barnes car went off the bath and got stuck in some soft ground. The SUV was stuck at a slant that pinned the driver side door shut and Barnes was unable to get the passenger door open.

The body was taken to the Mid-West Medical examiner’s office for an autopsy.

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