The physique of an Alabama man who went lacking in late Might was just lately discovered by certainly one of his kin on Monday, Sept. 2.
On Might 30, Kody Martin was reported lacking. On the time, the one factor police needed to go on was that his automotive was discovered after it crashed right into a phone pole. Martin had not been seen or heard from since, and no strong leads turned up, his sister, Katie Lewis advised WAFF just lately.
She alleged that police dropped the ball investigating her brother’s disappearance.
“Truthfully, I by no means need to drive down this highway once more,” Lewis stated of County Street 55 in Cullman. “It’s simply unfair that he needed to sit right here for 3 months.”
“I used to be sick of ready, and I known as and discovered the place the wreck occurred and I needed to go,” Lewis advised the information station in an article printed on Sept. 6. “I simply felt him, I knew. We simply knew that he was right here.”
Lewis trusted her instinct and went to the scene of the wreck to see if she may discover any clues as to what occurred to her sibling. What she discovered was way more devastating.
“He was not protected and they didn’t serve that day,” Lewis stated after discovering his stays on Sept. 2. “My brother was proper right here. If they might have searched they might have discovered my brother.”
As she grieves the lack of her brother, Lewis can also be asking for laws to be handed to make sure that nothing like this ever occurs once more.
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Her suggestion: “Both a Ok-9 or a foot search is fabricated from the world and that they find them.”
Earlier than Lewis’ interview with WAFF, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Workplace issued an announcement.
“Investigators and Coroner Jeff Chunn have responded to HWY 55 within the Cole Sping space the place a physique has been positioned. The topic had been reported lacking in Blount County earlier this yr. Household is conscious. No foul play is suspected,” the MCSO stated in a post on X (previously often called Twitter) on Sept. 3.
The Morgan County Coroner used dental data to determine the Martin, experiences ABC 33/40.
PEOPLE reached out to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Workplace Wednesday, Sept. 11, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.