A South Carolina man suffered a fatal heart attack while trying to bury the body of his girlfriend who he had strangled to death, investigators say.
Joseph McKinnon, 60, was discovered dead in his backyard Saturday after neighbours called police to report an unresponsive man in a yard in Trenton, S.C., reports NBC News.
Police also found a body wrapped in trash bags that had been placed in a freshly dug hole. Read more: Police search for gunman after 3 Korean women shot in Texas salon Police said the body belonged to McKinnon’s girlfriend, 65-year-old Patricia Ruth Dent.
Autopsies were conducted on both bodies Monday, reports ABC, and coroners found that Dent died by strangulation, while McKinnon died of a heart attack.