Woman apparently hangs self in area park
Published 12:00 am Friday, July 17, 2009
- Photo by Joe Imel/Daily NewsKentucky State Police detectives, along with Alvaton volunteer firefighters and a Medical Center EMS paramedic, carry the body of a woman across a field Thursday to a Warren County coroner’s van at Romanza Johnson County Park. State police investigated a report of a woman hanging from a tree. Park visitors spotted the body about 200 yards from Trammel Creek at Romanza Johnson Park. — Click here for more photos from the scene.
An apparent suicide was discovered Thursday afternoon in Romanza Johnson County Park.
Shortly before 2 p.m., a woman’s body was reported hanging in a tree just downstream from the park’s canoe launch on Trammel Creek. Kentucky State Police identified the woman as Beverly F. Bell, but have released no details on her age or address.
A death investigation is still open, said KSP Detective Chad Winn.
“At this time, no foul play is suspected,” he said.
KSP Lt. John Clark said Thursday that details would wait on contact with the next of kin.
— Click here for photos from the scene.
Ellen Wiser of Glasgow and a friend said they were having a late lunch in the small park’s picnic shelter when the discovery was made, and they stayed as investigators arrived. Wiser said she reached the park, off Mount Lebanon Road, shortly after 1:30 p.m., and saw one car in the gravel parking lot – a light tan four-door Mercury Tracer with Warren County plates – but no sign of its owner.
A few minutes later a man arrived, followed by two young men with kayaks, and they headed down to the canoe launch, Wiser said. The kayakers told Wiser that the man was a Scoutmaster charting a trail, she said.
The man quickly returned, having apparently discovered Bell’s body along the creek’s heavily wooded bank, and called police, according to Wiser.
