SOUTH BEACH, Ore. (AP) — Lincoln County sheriff’s officers are investigating the death of a Newport man whose body was found inside a burning car on the Oregon coast.
Deputies as well as Newport police and firefighters responded Thursday night to reports of a car fire in South Beach. When they extinguished the flames coming from a Ford Escort, they found 58-year-old Lester Robert McDowell dead inside the vehicle.
KPTV says both the cause of the fire and cause of death are under investigation.
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Information from: KPTV-TV, http://www.kptv.com/
