< Back to All News

Murder Investigated in Body Discovery

A badly-decomposed body has been found at an Alta Sierra home. The identity has not been determined yet and the death is being treated as suspicious by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Keith Royal says the home belongs to a person who is in a longterm care facility. He says neighbors went to the home, on Virginia Way, Monday evening, to retrieve some personal items for that person when the body was found covered by plastic trash bags on an outside deck at the rear of the home…

click to listen to Sheriff Royal

Royal says it was apparent that no one had lived in the home for a while…

click to listen to Sheriff Royal

Royal says an autopsy will be conducted over the next couple of days.

KNCO Web Comments Guidelines

  1. Keep it clean. Comments with inappropriate language, no matter how cleverly spelled or decorated will not be posted.
  2. Comments on the way the story was written or misspelled words will be passed on to the story authors and not posted.
  3. Please use your real name. Anonymous comments or comments posted using a fake name or web handle may not be posted.
  4. Please use your real email address so we can contact you.
  5. No flaming. Any comments that are primarily of a name calling finger pointing nature may not be posted.
  6. The comment section is not a right it is a privilege. KNCO retains all rights as to what is posted on its website.

Leave A Comment

*

*

* captcha