Oregon authorities are continuing to investigate the death of a Lyon County native whose body was found in a ditch in Jackson County.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office posted on social media the body was identified as 28-year old Cody Joseph Baize of Grants Pass, Oregon.
According to the sheriff’s office post Friday afternoon, they received a report shortly before 7:45 that morning of a deceased person in a ditch near the side of the road close to Butte Falls Highway. Authorities started an investigation to identify the adult male and the circumstances of his death which they deemed as “suspicious”.
The Lyon County Herald Ledger reports Baize grew up in Eddyville and lived elsewhere. The article says he has family who still reside in Lyon County and western Kentucky.
No other information has been released by the sheriff’s office.
