Body Found in Wills Creek Identified

Ft Payne Police Chief Randy Bynum says the body found March 21st in Wills Creek has now been identified. 

The male subject – whose body was sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science in Huntsville – has been identified as 25 year old James Thomas Phillips from the Jacksonville, Alabama area.  Phillips’ body was recovered by members of the Ft Payne Police Department, Ft Payne Fire Department and various rescue personnel, in the creek adjacent to Prestwood Avenue SW.

Chief Bynum said preliminary results from the autopsy did NOT yield any violent trauma to the body which would have caused the death of the man.  The investigation into that matter is on-going and authorities are awaiting additional testing from the Alabama Department of Forensic Science.

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