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No foul play found in autopsy

(Lesley Hughes / The Erwin Record)

Preliminary results from an autopsy did not reveal any wounds to the body of a man who died 26 years ago that would point to him being murdered.

The body of Richard B. Tapp was exhumed Wednesday, April 30, by the Unicoi County Sheriff’s Department at the request of family members who believed Tapp did not die accidentally like originally thought in 1982.

Sheriff Kent Harris said investigators agreed to look into the evidence again to determine if Tapp could have been shot, stabbed or hit in the head before dying. He was found lying face down under a bush hog that he had been using in a field in the Fishery community. More...

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