The Roane County Sheriff’s Department’s investigative team is looking into the discovery of a partially decomposed body in the Midtown area earlier today.

Chief Deputy Tim Phillips with the Sheriff’s Department stated he and Sheriff Stockton were at the location around 9:00am Wednesday morning in an area around 146 Davis Hollow Road, where the property owner located a decomposed body and called authorities. The body was taken by a County Rescue Squad unit to the forensic Center in Knoxville for an autopsy and possibly an identity. No further details have been given at this time, but we will have more as more is released from the Sheriff’s Department.