VALLEYFORD, Wash. (AP) - A woman being held in the Whitman County Jail recently told law enforcement officers that she found a body in the garage of an abandoned-looking home in Valleyford, which is just south of Spokane.
Spokane County sheriff’s deputies then searched the property and found the homeowner’s body inside a vehicle in the garage,
The Spokesman-Review reports that Ashley Baird was arrested on another charge and told deputies she found the body about a month ago while searching the home, which appeared abandoned.
Spokane County deputies obtained a search warrant and discovered the body.
The Spokane County Medical Examiner ruled the homeowner’s death as a suicide.
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