GUILTY KY - Grayson Co., Male, in Toolbox in Creek, Aug'16 - Tromain Mackall

[AmyPond]

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. Tromain is my cousin. Now we can finally have his body sent here to us in Maryland and give him the proper burial he deserves. We all miss him sorely especially his son.

So sorry for your loss.

 

[Blessed1]

Thank you so much. The last few weeks have been torture. We are praying family. Only God will get us through this. He was a great person that would give you his last. His laugh was contagious. Great father. We have lots of memories to cherish. We just wished he had stayed here in Maryland with family. Please keep us all in prayer.

 

[Gardener1850]

Thank you so much. The last few weeks have been torture. We are praying family. Only God will get us through this. He was a great person that would give you his last. His laugh was contagious. Great father. We have lots of memories to cherish. We just wished he had stayed here in Maryland with family. Please keep us all in prayer.

Prayers going out to your family. Sorry for your loss. :rose:

 

[Blessed1]

Thank you all

 

[Everyday Grace]

Relieved for Tromain's family that there has been a formal identification.

Now officially a murder investigation rather than a missing person.

The report shows he was murdered by being strangled and suffocated.

He was reported missing on July 24, and last seen at a party on Collier Road near Whitesville in Daviess County.

According to his roommate, Mackall had not returned to his home on Barnetts Creek Road in Hartford and had not reported to work that morning at Tamarlane Industries in Beaver Dam.

Witnesses at the party said there was an argument and a physical altercation involving Mackall.

http://www.wbko.com/content/news/Grayson-County-murder-victim-identified-391047061.html

The Kentucky State Police and Ohio County Sheriff's Department are conducting the homicide investigation.

Earlier this month, Eyewitness News reported Mackall was last seen alive leaving a party at a home on Collier Rd. after an altercation.

He moved to Ohio County, Kentucky from Maryland more than five months ago.

Since Tromain Mackall was reported missing last month, investigators searched parts of at least three counties for any signs of him. But now that his body has been positively identified, this missing person's case is now a homicide investigation.

"With any family that had a loved one that has been missing or is found deceased, you can imagine the turmoil they are going through at the moment.," says Ohio County Sheriff Tracy Beatty.

Investigators interviewed at least ten witnesses about Mackall's whereabouts since he was last seen on July 24th. Kentucky State Police are now in charge of the investigation. Sheriff Beatty says the death might not have happened in Ohio County.

"There were two other counties of question, of course where the body was found. There was also a gathering near Whitesville where there was an altercation that occurred. So, we're not sure where that offense occurred. We are certain that it was not in our jurisdiction," he says.

http://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/local-news/body-found-in-grayson-co-identified-as-ohio-co-man

 

[Everyday Grace]

Time required to get Tromain's medical records from the Navy may account for some of the delay involved in an official identification.

Grayson County Coroner Joe Brad Hudson says medical and dental records from the Navy were used to identify Mackall. They couldn't get fingerprints off the body due to the stage of decomposition.

"Any time you have decomposition, it makes it more difficult," says Hudson. "If the person had just died, we can use his fingerprints, but when somebody's been half-in, half out of water, there's all kinds of circumstances that can cause fingerprints not to be lifted."

http://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/local-news/body-found-in-grayson-co-identified-as-ohio-co-man

 

[carbuff]

I'm so sorry for your loss. He sounds like a wonderful person.

 

[AmyPond]

Praying for your family. And for justice for Tromain.

 

[AmyPond]

Hopefully the mods can get the title changed now that he has been identified.

 

[carbuff]

Hopefully the mods can get the title changed now that he has been identified.

I alerted them

 

[AmyPond]

I alerted them

Thanks. For future reference, who do we alert exactly and how?

 

[carbuff]

Thanks. For future reference, who do we alert exactly and how?

I just click on the red triangle and report that the person has been identified and ask if they could change the title.

 

[Everyday Grace]

Police discovered a body, with hands and feet bound, locked in a large toolbox found floating in a creek on August 2nd.

The investigation of Mackall’s disappearance has driven a wedge between the 29 year old father’s family in Maryland, and his girlfriend in Kentucky.

By all accounts, Mackall moved to Kentucky in February to reconnect with Simone Dewitt, whom he had met ten years earlier.

Howell and other members of Mackall’s family say they believe DeWitt had a role – direct or indirect – in Mackall’s death, and have called for police to treat her as a suspect in his death.

According to a sheriff’s department post on Facebook, Mackall was last seen on the night of July 24th. He was involved in some sort of altercation – DeWitt says it was with another man, Howell says investigators told her it was with Dewitt. DeWitt says she spoke with Mackall by phone around 1:45am.

After a few minutes, Mackall’s end of the phone went quiet. DeWitt said she could still hear ambient noise in the background.

“I thought maybe he dropped his phone or something so I tried to call back, DeWitt said. “I kept trying to call until about four, four-something in the morning and it just kept ringing.”

More at the link:
http://www.wusa9.com/mb/news/local/md-mans-body-found-in-toolbox-leads-to-murder-mystery/306197533

 

[Everyday Grace]

Witnesses reported an argument and physical altercation involving Mackall took place at the residence in Daviess County.

Preliminary interviews determined there were seven people at the residence that night, including Mackall. Authorities spoke with all the other witnesses, even having to use the United States’ Marshals Service, FBI and other agencies to find one individual, the release states.

http://www.somdnews.com/breaking/pr...cle_04d72530-461c-5462-ad06-84cc0010b254.html

 

[Everyday Grace]

Beginning July 29, individual interviews were conducted at the OCSO with five of the six others who attended the gathering. One individual was unable to be found. The United States Marshall Service, Owensboro Police Department, DCSO and Hancock County Sheriff’s Office were contacted to aid in the search of the remaining witness. The FBI was also consulted as an additional resource to aid in the investigation.

Simultaneously, with the assistance of KSP Post 16, a search warrant was obtained through the Daviess County Attorney’s Office for the residence on Collier Road. The search was conducted by the OCSO, in conjunction with KSP, to corroborate witness interviews and obtain evidence or information leading to the whereabouts of Mackall.

http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0816/body-found-in-toolbox-identified-as-missing-somd-man-.html

 

[Tssiemer]

http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0816/complexitysurroundsthemurderoftromainmackall.html

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[bflocket]

Man charged with murder after body found in toolbox
WAVE-3 (Louisville, KY)
3/14/2017

William Howard Jr., 48, of Falls of the Rough, KY, was charged in connection to the murder of Tromain Mackall, 29, on Tuesday, according to Kentucky State Police.

Mackall was reported missing on July 25, 2016. His body was found inside of a toolbox that was floating in the Spring Fork Creek on Aug. 2, 2016.

KSP Charges Man With Murder Of Tromain Mackall
WLEX-18 (Lexington, KY)
3/14/2017

Mackall had recently moved to Ohio County in western Kentucky from Maryland. The Navy veteran was reported missing in July 2016. Almost two weeks later, his body was found stuffed in a large truck tool box.

...KSP Crime Lab that they were able to successfully link 48-year-old William E. Howard Jr. of Grayson County with the crime.

New information released in Ohio Co. man's murder
WFIE-14 (Evansville, IN)
3/15/2017

His [Mackall's] body was later found inside a toolbox, which was floating in Spring Fork Creek in Grayson County.

Investigators believe Mackall was strangled or suffocated and that the murder happened in Daviess County.

 

[Nancy19XX]

Article from March 22, 2019:
Three sentenced for murder; victim’s mother carried out of courtroom after emotional testimony
Three sentenced for murder; victim's mother carried out of courtroom after emotional testimony - The Owensboro Times

 

[cvaldez1975]

what was even their motive? sad.