Police identify body found in Chubbuck Published
Police identify body found in Chubbuck
CHUBBUCK, Idaho (KIFI) - UPDATE 5/25/21: The Chubbuck Police Department has identified a body found in a field Saturday as Karl Lockhart.
Officers say they are still investigating what led to his disappearance and now death.
ORIGINAL: Officials are investigating a decomposed body found in a field in Chubbuck.
The Bannock County Sheriff s Office received a call around 4:30 p.m. Saturday that land surveyors working near the southeast end of Nelson Lane in Chubbuck had found a body.
Sheriff Tony Manu told Local News 8 the body is too badly decomposed to immediately tell the person s gender. His office is the only agency currently investigating the incident.
Remains found in Bannock County identified as missing man
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Karl Lockhart | Courtesy Chubbuck Police Department
CHUBBUCK A body found near Chubbuck on Saturday has been identified as a local man originally reported missing nearly a year ago.
Karl Lockhart was 32 when he was reported missing last June, according to Chubbuck Chief of police Bill Guiberson.
Lockhart’s remains were found by a group of surveyors in a field near North Nelson lane north of Chubbuck in Bannock County Saturday afternoon.
Although Lockhart had been missing for nearly 10 months, and his body was found in a state of decomposition, it is unlikely that he has been in the field for anywhere near that amount of time, Bannock County Sheriff Tony Manu said.