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Merryville Woman Found in Creek
Posted: May 21, 2010 9:24 AM by Sharlee Jacobs
ROSEPINE, La. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies say a 21-year-old
Merryville woman died while on an outing with friends at Anacoco
Creek, north of Rosepine in Vernon Parish.
The Alexandria Town Talk reports the Vernon Parish Sheriff's
Office received a report of a missing person around 9 p.m.
Wednesday after Melissa Renee Knox's friends could not find the
woman when it was time to leave.
Deputies, along with Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries officials,
conducted a search that night, but it was halted until Thursday
morning.
The search resumed at daybreak, and Knox's body was found in a
creek around 8 a.m.
Deputies say the body was sent to Shreveport for an autopsy.
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