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Concrete-Encased Body Positively Identified As Former PNJ Reporter
October 13, 2012
The body found encased in concrete in Georgia has been positively identified as a former Pensacola News Journal reporter.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday the body found Monday in Winder, GA, was that of 30-year old Sean Dugas of Pensacola. The GBI said Dugas died about a month ago from blunt force trauma to the head.
Dugas had not been heard from since August 27 when he talked to a friend by phone.
While investigating the missing person case, the Pensacola Police Department developed leads which led to them to contact police in Winder, Ga., on Monday. Police in Winder then discovered the body encased in concrete and buried in a backyard of a Winder home.
Twins from Pensacola, Christopher and William Cormier, 31, have both been charged by Georgia authorities. An investigation is continuing to determine exactly where Dugas died.
On August 27, Dugas and a female friend planned to go lunch , but when she arrived at his house to pick him up, he wasn’t home, said Capt. David Alexander of the Pensacola Police Department. A man who lived at the house told the woman Dugas was scheduled to return at 3 p.m. Alexander said the woman left a note on Dugas’ door asking him to contact her, but he did not.
Alexander said the female friend continued trying unsuccessfully to contact Dugas over the next few days. When she returned to the house September 7 to check on him, the house was empty except for a television. Alexander said the woman asked neighbors if they knew what had happened to him and they said a U-haul truck was there on September 3 and they saw at least one man removing items from the house.
Alexander said neighbors asked him about Dugas, and the man said he’d been beaten and was going to live with him.
Meanwhile, the female friend continued trying to reach Dugas, and when she could not, she contacted police on September 13. Alexander said Dugas’ name was then entered into the National Crime Information Center’s computer database as a missing/endangered person.
Dugas was employed by the Pensacola News Journal from 2005 to 2010.
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3 Responses to “Concrete-Encased Body Positively Identified As Former PNJ Reporter”
What could be the rason for this? They wanted to steal his household possessions? They met in a comic book store, for god sake! Did he have that many things that they wanted that they rented a uhaul to cart it all away? Were they just drunk?/ so senseless..
Ask the twins: where do you want your death penatly, Florida or Georgia? We can sentence you to life in one, and death in the other. Those idiots will be rolling over on each other so quick, it won’t be funny. One will accuse the other and vice-versa.
However, if you can’t prove where he was murdered, it may be hard to get a conviction in either state, besides not reporting a death and improper disposal of a body in Georgia.
The irony may be they walk in a few years.
It’s a sad commentary on how the value of human life has plummeted as we head back towards the times of the Middle Ages.