By Associated Press - Tuesday, July 28, 2020

MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) - Kansas state police announced they are investigating the death of a woman in the small south-central city of Medicine Lodge as a homicide.

Police were called Monday afternoon to a Medicine Lodge home after a family member found Joyce Foulkrod, 61, dead inside the home, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.

A preliminary investigation indicates Foulkrod’s death was a homicide, the release said. Authorities did not give details on how Foulkrod may have died. An autopsy was set to be performed Tuesday.



KBI, Medicine Lodge police and the Barber County Sheriff’s Office were investigating Foulkrod’s death.

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