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Body reported found at empty Ft. Jackson house turns out to be a deer carcass

Posted 2/20/15

State police say reports of a body found in an empty Fort Jackson house are unfounded, as the body turned out to be a real carcass, but was a deer, not a person. Ernie Wood of Hopkinton, whose family …

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Body reported found at empty Ft. Jackson house turns out to be a deer carcass

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State police say reports of a body found in an empty Fort Jackson house are unfounded, as the body turned out to be a real carcass, but was a deer, not a person.

Ernie Wood of Hopkinton, whose family lived in the Circle Dive house in the 1980s and 1990s, said friends had called him Thursday to tell him they had heard talk on a scanner that state police were investigating a report of a body and some drugs in a house that was being cleaned on behalf of a bank or real estate company.

Wood said he drove out to the house and saw five state police cars there.

A state police investigator said the reports originated with a cleaner at the house who opened a freezer, saw a carcass, and left.

Just to be sure, troopers took photos of what they found and sent them to a SUNY Potsdam expert who confirmed it was a deer.

A small amount of drug paraphernalia was found at the scene.

The investigator said they have no idea how long the deer and the drug equipment had been there, and no further investigation is warranted.