OGLETHORPE COUNTY, Ga. — The Oglethorpe County Sheriff’s Office has identified a body found in the woods last month.
Deputies say their investigators and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they identified David J. Stewart, 69, through medical and dental records.
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Investigators say they are treating Stewart’s death as a homicide.
A person of interest has been detained in another state.
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On Feb. 25, the Oglethorpe County Sheriff’s Office got a 911 call from someone who found a body off Double Bridges Road.
The sheriff’s office is asking for anyone who had contact with Stewart “as a neighbor, friend or delivery person or may have went by his house” to reach out to them at 706-743-8101 or by clicking here.
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