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Cause of Death Confirmed

By: Sarah Lovett

Updated: January 23, 2009

The Daviess County coroner has confirmed that seventy-year-old James Turner died of traumatic asphyxiation after a wall of dirt collapsed on him Thursday afternoon. He and another man were behind Macedonia Baptist Church just outside Owensboro looking for a drainage pipe. Turner was in a hole when it collapsed, covering him up to his chest in dirt. His chest cavity was crushed and he was unable to breathe.

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