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Body Found on Spencer’s West Side Identified

Body Found on Spencer’s West Side Identified

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Spencer, IA (KICD)– The body found on the west side of Spencer last week has been identified.

Police Chief Mark Warburton tells KICD News the deceased male is 29-year-old Joshua Martin formerly of Marathon.

Martin’s body was found outside 217 West 5th Street last Monday morning and was sent to the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.

We are told those results have yet to be completed keeping a cause of death from being known at this time.

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