January 29, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
The body of a Murfreesboro woman was recovered from Center Hill Lake Sunday morning, the apparent victim of a drowning.
Dead is Jerilyn Massey Lamb of Somerset Drive Murfreesboro.
In a prepared statement, Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Sunday, January 28 at 7:49 a.m. a call was received by DeKalb Central Dispatch of an unresponsive female at Sligo Marina on the B pier. The woman was found by her husband in the water in an adjoining slip. Deputies arrived at 8:03 a.m. and DeKalb County Detectives were also summoned to the scene.
The DeKalb Sheriff’s Department was assisted in the investigation by members of the 13th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Mrs. Lamb’s body has been sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.
This marks the second suspected drowning on Center Hill Lake this month.
On Thursday, January 11, the body of 66 year old Scott Northrup of Silver Point was recovered at around 11:35 a.m. about 100 yards from where his fishing boat was found Wednesday night, January 10 in the Florida branch area of the lake about a mile across from Floating Mill Access,