{"id":35328,"date":"2026-03-23T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=35328"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:47:34","slug":"decatur-pd-confirms-body-found-by-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/decatur-pd-confirms-body-found-by-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur PD confirms body found by river"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A large police presence Monday afternoon in Decatur was explained when the Decatur Police Department announced Monday evening that a body had been pulled from the St. Marys River earlier in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Chief of Police Chris Brite confirmed that a body of a male Caucasian was taken from &#8220;near the River Greenway Trail.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News of the large police presence in the afternoon created quite a stir within the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Brite, police do not believe foul play was involved in the man&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identification of the deceased will not take place until after notification of next of kin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Adams County EMS, Coroner, Sheriff&#8217;s Office, and the Indiana State Police Crime Scene Unit were also involved in the afternoon investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large police presence Monday afternoon in Decatur was explained when the Decatur Police Department announced Monday evening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-35328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35332,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328\/revisions\/35332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}