PANGUITCH, Utah, Jan. 11, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — A man is behind bars after a 90-year-old woman was found dead inside a coal bin at her home in Panguitch Wednesday.
Peter Marker, of Cedar City, was arrested in connection with the case, Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Thursday. Jail records show he was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor B failure to report a dead body.
One of the elderly woman’s relatives contacted the Washington County Sheriff’s Office about a letter she received from her uncle, Marker, which stated her grandmother had passed away on Christmas Day 2017. The relative’s uncle reportedly said in the letter he had “taken care of the body.”
Officials then contacted the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the home and found the woman’s body under a “large amount of coal,” the news release said. Marker was then taken into custody.
The GCSO has not released any further details of the incident. It’s not yet clear how the woman died.
Jail records show Marker’s bail is set at $680.
Gephardt Daily will have more on this developing story as information becomes available.
