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Unidentified body found in vehicle near Epps Bridge Parkway

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Investigators have yet to identify the body of a man found in a vehicle parked near Epps Bridge Parkway and the Athens Perimeter.

Oconee County Coroner Ed Carson said the body was taken to the state medical examiner’s office to help with identification. Inside the man’s vehicle, police found the cremated remains of a dog, three cell phones, a sleeping bag, and other items.

A cause of death has not been released.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
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