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(NewsNation) — Newly released 911 calls shed much airy connected the country wherever Oklahoma teenager Noah Presgrove's assemblage was recovered past year.
Presgrove, 19, was past seen live astatine a enactment helium attended with a radical of friends past Labor Day weekend. His assemblage was discovered on U.S. 81 adjacent Terral connected Sept. 4, 2023.
People magazine obtained the audio of 2 911 calls made to constabulary that time and elaborate them successful an nonfiction published Monday. The mag reported the calls were made conscionable earlier 6 a.m. section time.
In the archetypal audio, a antheral identified arsenic "Tyler" said helium wasn't definite what helium saw “laying connected the enarthrosis of the road” arsenic helium drove down the road connected Labor Day morning. Although helium suggested astatine archetypal the fig could beryllium a deer, “it looked similar a body," the caller said, describing it arsenic "awful odd."
Shortly aft that, constabulary got different telephone from "Tyler Hardy," saying helium had seen a assemblage connected the broadside of the roadworthy and besides mistaking it for a deer.
“I'm beauteous definite there's idiosyncratic laying dormant on the road,” Hardy said. “They look naked. I'm staying back.”
A dispatcher told Hardy she was alert and a lawman was connected their way.
“It really looks similar there's a portion of covering possibly lying successful the mediate of the road,” Hardy said. “I don’t privation to get excessively close.”
Hardy speaks out
Hardy, a tract supervisor for Gulfmark Energy, had already talked astir uncovering Presgrove successful a June interrogation with The Daily Mail.
When helium pulled implicit and saw Presgrove's assemblage lying successful a fetal position, Hardy said helium saw the 19-year-old was wearing thing but for a brace of mismatched shoes. About 25 feet distant from Presgrove were a brace of achromatic shorts.
A small portion later, Presgrove’s champion friend, Jack Newton, arrived, Hardy recalled.
“Jack was the lone idiosyncratic who walked up to Noah, and helium told maine who it was until the Terral Fire and Jefferson County Sheriffs showed up,” Hardy recalled. Newton said determination was minimal humor astatine the scene, with a small coming retired of Presgrove’s ears and connected the apical of his head.
Presgrove's household inactive has questions
Initially, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation declared Presgrove’s decease arsenic “suspicious,” but the state’s Highway Patrol aboriginal said it was not investigating Presgrove’s decease arsenic a murder. A aesculapian examiner’s report NewsNation section affiliate KFOR revealed successful May states that Presgrove died from “multiple blunt unit injuries” and labels his mode of decease arsenic “undetermined.”
Various injuries and abrasions could beryllium seen connected Presgrove, the aesculapian examiner's study said. Family members of Presgrove's said to NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield that Presgrove's skull was caved in, helium had roadworthy rash connected his hip, a gravel rash connected his shoulder, aggregate bruises and scattered teeth.
However, nary conveyance parts oregon debris were observed successful the area, KFOR wrote, casting uncertainty connected theories that determination had been a hit-and-run.
“At this time, what transpired connected however the assemblage was recovered connected the roadworthy having aggregate blunt unit injuries is unknown,” the study said.
Madison Rawlings, Presgrove's older sister, said the autopsy conscionable near her with adjacent much questions.
“He wasn’t deed by a vehicle, truthful I mean, I conjecture it puts you astatine ease,” Rawlings said to KFOR. “But past I would emotion to know, 'OK, well, what caused these injuries?'”
