POLICE CHARGE MAN OVER BURIED-DISMEMBERED MASON CO. BODY

(08/02/2016)

State Police have charged Richard Hurt, 47, of Gallipolis, Ohio, with dismemberment and concealment of a deceased woman's body in Mason County WV. According to the criminal complaint, State Police went to a house on Abby Lane Saturday evening after getting a complaint about possible human remains on the property. Police found human remains in a shallow grave on the property. The homeowner told troopers Hurt had recently done some work in the area where the remains were found. Hurt was located during a traffic stop. According to the complaint, Hurt then confessed during an interview that the victim, a woman, had died of a drug overdose. He said he then dismembered her body with a saw, put the parts in trash bags. He says he then took the bags to the property on Abby Lane, where he put them in a shallow grave that was covered with dirt and rubble. Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning says that Hurt is a "person of interest" in the disappearance of 33-year-old Jessica Berry on July 18. Browning also says that more arrests and charges could follow in the case.

Hur Herald ®from Sunny Cal The information on these pages, to the extent the law allows, remains the exclusive property of Bob Weaver and Dianne Weaver The Hur Herald. All information may be freely used but must not be sold or used in any type of commercial endeavor, or used on any web site without the express permission of the owners ©Bob and Dianne Weaver, The Hur Herald, 1999, 2000, 2001