Girl finds dead body on school property
Brian Walker | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 13 years, 1 month AGO
POST FALLS — An 8-year-old girl found a dead body while playing in a field on school property after church on Sunday.
Post Falls police Chief Scot Haug said it appears a 60-year-old Post Falls woman committed suicide and was found at 10:14 a.m. under a Ford U-Haul truck at the Immaculate Conception (Catholic) Church along Interstate 90 east of City Hall.
"Investigators have information that she had been depressed in the past and made suicidal statements," Haug said.
There were no signs of foul play and an autopsy on Monday indicated no signs of trauma. A soda bottle was found next to the body. Toxicology results are pending.
Haug said the unmarried woman recently moved to Post Falls from Oregon. She lived in the vicinity of the church. The Press decided to not name the woman.
Investigators are trying to determine how long the woman was under the truck.
"We know that she was alive during the early morning hours on Wednesday (April 25)," said Haug, declining to say how police know that.
There was no suicide note left behind on scene.
An investigation continues.
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