Law enforcement agencies awaiting results of autopsy in death investigation

August 14, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

An investigation continues into the death of a person found inside a car last Friday afternoon in a cornfield on New Bildad Road near the DeKalb/Warren County line.

Investigators are awaiting results of an autopsy to determine the person’s identity as well as the cause of death.

Could the case be connected to a recent missing person investigation?

According to the Southern Standard, Warren County Sheriff Jackie Matheny, Jr. said his department had been requested by the Smithville Police Department to assist in the search effort for a missing person, Rebecca Maxfield, who had been reported missing in DeKalb County last month.

During a search along New Bildad Road Friday afternoon, Sheriff Matheny told the Southern Standard that his investigators located a car in a cornfield containing the body of a deceased person and notified DeKalb County authorities after concluding that the car was not in Warren County but across the county line in DeKalb County.

Again, results of the autopsy have not yet been released and a positive identification of the body has not been made.

Sheriff Patrick Ray issued the following prepared statement.

“At approximately 3:23 pm on August 9, 2024, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department received a call of a body that was found on New Bildad Road Smithville. Members of the Smithville Police Department, DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, Warren County Sheriff‘s Department, District Attorney General Offices from both DeKalb and Warren County and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents from both DeKalb and Warren County were summoned to the scene. The body which was located in a vehicle was found in a cornfield. The body was sent to Nashville TN for an autopsy by the State Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the identity of the person. No more details are available at this time. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Smithville Police Department, DeKalb County and Warren County Sheriff‘s Departments are investigating the case”.

August 14, 2024
By: Dwayne Page

A major sewer system rehabilitation effort is within a few months of getting started in the City of Smithville.

During last Monday night’s meeting, the Mayor and Aldermen awarded a bid, as recommended by JR Wauford & Company Consulting Engineers, to Cumberland Pipeline, LLC of Columbia Kentucky in the amount of $2,649,513. The scope of the work will be to primarily replace cross country sewer lines in four specific areas of town generally in the following locations: On West Main Street starting behind the Middle Tennessee Tae Kwon Do business (old Piggly Wiggly building) to West Broad Street near the NextGen Auto Inc. business (old Baker’s Body Shop location); From Whaley Street near Patty’s Restaurant to White Oak Drive; From Foster Road across from Doe Lane to West Broad Street; and from Congress Boulevard near Liberty State Bank and DeKalb Christian Academy to NHC Healthcare Center. Again, the work will be done primarily cross country rather than along roadways.

Daniel Tribble, Manager of Field Services for JR Wauford and Company explained that while the low bid for the project was $2.6 million, the city is getting financial assistance to help cover the costs.

“The City of Smithville was awarded a Community Development Block Grant in the amount of $300,000 by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. As part of the Build Back Better Act and the American Rescue Plan Act the City of Smithville was also awarded $1,311,999 in non-competitive grant funding to be used for sewer rehab,” said Tribble.

The city’s local funding portion is $1,095,763 from available water and sewer funds.

“We have designed this project that is a continuation of one that began a few years ago to rehab cross country sewer lines, not those that run parallel with roads but that run mostly along creeks and ditches where most gravity sewers end up and terminate,” said Tribble. “We had a bid opening on June 25 where we received four bids. We then had to conduct a mini rebid to satisfy ECD requirements where you allowed us four bidders to rebid on the same project. The low bidder submitted the same price both times at $2,649,513. The low bidder is Cumberland Pipeline, LLC of Columbia, Kentucky. Our firm has worked with them before and we recommend that they be awarded the contract for sewer system rehabilitation,” said Tribble.

The project involves unit price which means the final quantities determine the final contract amount so the final contract amount may differ from the bid amount.

Tribble said the work is expected to start by the first of the year.

August 13, 2024
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Army Officer and Smithville native, Scott Emmons, the son of Lloyd and Donna Emmons, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on Friday, August 9th. The ceremony, held in Wiesbaden Germany, was presided over by General Darryl A. Williams, Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, and NATO Allied Land Command.

Emmons, a 2003 graduate of DeKalb County High School, joined the Army in 2007 after graduating from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY with a degree in Defense and Security Studies.

Commissioning as an Artillery Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Emmons has served 10 of his 16 years in service overseas, in a wide variety of tactical and operational roles including combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and Jordan, as well as three years as an exchange officer in the UK. In 2018, he earned a Masters Degree in Military Arts and Sciences and graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

As a Major, Emmons served in Italy and Germany with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, and as the Operations Officer for the 41st Fires Brigade also in Germany. In part, because of his extensive background in working with Allies and Partners, then Major Emmons was selected last year to serve as the Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General for all U.S. Army forces in Europe and Africa as well as the NATO Allied Land Commander, where he continues to serve.

United States Army Europe and Africa, in Wiesbaden Germany, is the same headquarters that Lieutenant Colonel Emmons’ paternal grandfather Richard Clarence Emmons served under Generals Eisenhower and Bradley during World War II. Lieutenant Colonel Emmons is married to the love of his life Georgette, and they have three sons: Atlas, Maximus, and Ivor.

For more information about opportunities and Army careers visit, www.goarmy.com, or contact the Cookeville Army recruiting station at +1 615-564-4084. For more information about the United States Military Academy at West Point visit www.usma.edu

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