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Skull discovered in soybean field puzzles Monroe County officersBy The Associated PressABERDEEN — Monroe County lawmen are searching an area around a soybean field hoping to come up with clues to help identify a skull found there two weeksago. ii.' • airlift“If this is not Leigh Occhi, then we have a homicide in our county that we have got to follow up on, said Sheriff Ruble Maxey.A skull found by a farmhand in a soybean field in the northwest corner of Monroe County initially was believed to be that of Leigh Occhi, a Tupelo teen-ager who has been missing for more than14 months. Dental records were supposed to have supplied a proof that the skull was Occhi’s.But last week, the state medical examiner's office retracted its positive identification of theskull. ' ; -'-'V-:State Medical Examiner Emily Ward said Friday that she plans to consult a forensic anthropologist to help in the identification of the remains. She said the results of the specialists’ finding should be ready by the middle of next week. yMaxey and about 10 deputies searched Friday about a quarter to a half mile of a 10-foot wideditch where the skull was found. They came up with nothing Friday.Maxey said, to his knowledge, there are no unsolved murders in the county. There are, however, two open missing person cases, both involving white males inMonroe County.Occhi was reported missing last Aug 27, six days after she celebrated her 13th birthday.When authorities arrived at the home, they found no signs of Occhi, but did find blood stains on the bathroom counter top and hair and blood stains on a door frame.
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Sun, Nov 14, 1993
Page 33
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