The Pearl River County Coroner confirmed that Seth Colter Odom had died from a gunshot wound and had been dead for a week.
The man was named as Seth Colter Odom of Poplarville, a WXXV 25 news report said."The body was recovered in the toolbox on Saturday," he said."We secured that and we extricated the body from the toolbox yesterday at the office of the state medical examiner."
A stock image shows a police banner. The identity of a man whose remains were found in Mississippi has been revealed by the Pearl River County Coroner.He added:"To preserve the evidence, we transferred the box and the body to the state crime lab. "We were able to identify him through his tattoos using social media and confirmed it through Pearl River County jail records."
Authorities were first alerted to the toolbox when it was spotted by members of the public at around 10 a.m. on Saturday on the embankment of a creek. Turnage noted that finger prints were used in identifying Colter, who was known to law enforcement agencies. He also stated that he had been dead for a week but had not been reported missing
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