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LONDONDERRY --An unknown man's body had been at rest in Londonderry Cemetery for 36 years until Thursday, when the Ross County Coroner's Office exhumed his grave.
The mystery began June 21, 1975, when a fisherman found a body in the Scioto River north of Chillicothe, according to Gazette archives. Benny Roberts told the sheriff's office at the time he had been fishing from a boat on the river when he spotted the nude body of a man caught on a snag in the middle of the river.
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The case was tucked away and almost forgotten, but it was resurrected in early summer when the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System -- NamUs -- contacted the Ross County Coroner's Office.
"NamUs was doing a national search for unidentified persons to add to their database when they came across this record at the Hamilton County Coroner's Office, the location of the initial autopsy," said Mike Ratliff, Ross County Coroner's Office chief investigator. "We were contacted to see if this individual had ever been identified. We searched our records and found that he hadn't been. This was the first time we were made aware of this case."
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