05/11/2022
WOW.
Joseph McKinnon's body was found on Saturday in the small town of Trenton, South Carolina, after neighbours reported an unconscious man.
Emergency services were called out but could not revive him.
As sheriff's deputies investigated the 60-year-old's death, they found a body wrapped in bin bags in a newly dug hole.
It turned out to be his partner, Patricia Dent, 65, said a statement from Edgefield County Sheriff's Office.
A post-mortem found that she had been strangled and neighbours recalled seeing McKinnon digging a hole in the yard the day before.
McKinnon died of a heart attack, according to an examination of his body.