GEORGIA -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has released the autopsy results on an 81-year-old woman who was found dead in a ditch in Washington, Georgia earlier this week.
The autopsy on Neta Lee Adams was performed Thursday at the GBI Crime Lab in Decatur, Georgia and the results are that Adams died after a dog attack. Her official cause of death has been ruled Traumatic Injury.
The manner of Adams' death has been ruled accidental, but the GBI and the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office are continuing the investigation into Adams' death.
The GBI is asking that anyone with information concerning this investigation to call the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office at 706-678-2224 or the GBI Office at 706-595-2575.
EARLIER:
WJBF News Channel 6 has learned that an elderly woman in her 80's has been found dead in a ditch in Washington, Georgia.
The woman's body was found in a ditch off of Gordon Street. The call came in about the discovery about 8:32 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Wilkes County Sheriff's Office investigators, along with investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) have completed investigation of the scene and the body is being sent to the GBI crime lab.
The discovery of the woman's body is being treated as a suspicous death, according to GBI Agent Pat Morgan.
Morgan tells us, he does not know when the autopsy on the body will be performed. No cause of death has been determined, at this time.
Once the Wilkes County Coroner's Office identifies the and the woman's next of kin is notified, her name will be released, according to Morgan.
We will continue to follow this developing story and provide the latest information as it becomes available.
(WJBF - April 3, 2015)
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