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last updated at 11:29 PM on Aug. 6, 2004
Police still have not positively identified woman's body
By Joe Johnson
Oconee Editor
It will be Monday at the earliest before officials will be able to release the
identity of a woman whose body was found Wednesday in Wilkes County. The body
could be that of an Athens woman missing since last Saturday.
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The
Georgia Bureau of Investigation's State Crime Lab on Friday had yet to complete
the identification process, using dental and fingerprint records provided by
the family of the missing woman, 29-year-old Kathryn Anne Grant, according to
Mike Siegler, special agent in charge of the GBI's Thomson office, which is
handling the case.
"What
I can say is there was no detection of trauma, which lessens the likelihood of
foul play, although that has not been ruled out," Siegler said.
The
body was found in a wooded area near the Little River, some 200 yards from a
Ford F-150 pickup truck belonging to Grant, an employee of the University of
Georgia's Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
The
truck was found parked under a bridge where the Little River - which separates
Wilkes and McDuffie counties - empties into Clark's Hill Reservoir off U.S.
Highway 78 about 10 miles southeast of Washington. Investigators said the
woman's clothed body was found by a Wilkes sheriff's deputy.
Grant
was reported missing to Athens authorities on Tuesday by her father, Randy
Grant, when she did not show up for work for two days. She was last seen
Saturday at an Athens store, where Athens-Clarke police determined she had
purchased a bottle of over-the-counter sleeping pills.
Grant's
roommate said Grant had been depressed over the recent death of a friend.
Published in the Athens
Banner-Herald on Saturday, August 7, 2004