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16 Mar 2013
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Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
June 23, 1952, p19
This
undated photo shows Sheila Kay Ross, of McLoud, Okla. Ross' body was found
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, in the back of a semitrailer delivering lettuce to a
Hy-Vee grocery store distribution center in Iowa. (AP Photo/KCCI TV, Des Moines) Townhall.com The NewsNews Article
The body of a woman last seen at a produce plant in Arizona was found in a lettuce delivery truck in Iowa, police said.
Sheila Kay Ross, 47, was accidentally pinned inside the truck while it was being loaded, Dr. John Kraemer of the Iowa medical examiner's office said Wednesday.
The Rosses owned their own semitrailer and had gone to a Dole Food plant in Yuma, Ariz., Saturday night to pick up a load, said Officer Clint Norred, a Yuma police spokesman. Sheila Ross, from McLoud, Okla., got out of the vehicle to get paperwork but never returned, he said. Her husband reported her missing that night.
A dockworker at the Hy-Vee grocery store distribution center near Des Moines found her body Tuesday in the back of another truck that was delivering lettuce, said Chris Friesleben, a Hy-Vee spokeswoman.
An autopsy concluded that she died of compressional asphyxiation, Kraemer said.
An Oklahoma woman whose body was found in the back of a
tractor-trailer was pinned inside the trailer as it was being loaded
with lettuce, a medical examiner said Wednesday.
Sheila Kay Ross, 47, of McLoud, Okla., died as a result of an
accident, said Dr. John Kraemer, director of forensics for the Iowa
medical examiner's office.
"Preliminary autopsy results indicate the cause of death to be due to
compressional asphyxiation," Kraemer said.
Lettuce fatally crushed missing Oklahoma woman
Sheila Kay Ross, 47, of McLoud, Okla
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.01.2007
Body of Female Truck Driver Found in Lettuce Truck; Autopsy
Scheduled
January 31, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa — The body of a woman reported missing from
Yuma, Ariz., was found Tuesday in the back of a semitrailer delivering
lettuce to a Hy-Vee grocery store distribution center in Iowa.
Sheila Kay Ross, 47, of McLoud, Okla., was reported missing Saturday by
her husband, said Officer Clint Norred, a spokesman for the Yuma Police
Department.
He said the Rosses arrived in their semi to pick up a load from a
Dole plant in Yuma about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Sheila Ross got out of the
truck to get some paperwork but never returned, Norred said.
"After a while, Mr. Ross called us and the Yuma police searched the
area and couldn't locate Mrs. Ross," Norred said.
Chris Friesleben, a Hy-Vee spokeswoman, said a dock worker found the
body while unloading lettuce at the distribution center in Chariton,
southeast of Des Moines.
Norred said the Rosses owned their own truck. Sheila Ross' body was
found in the back of a truck owned by R&J trucking, of Youngstown, Ohio,
he said.
"There is no sign of foul play and the incident appears to be a
tragic accident," he said.
Norred said police do not know how Ross ended up in the truck, nor
was there any immediate indication of how she died.
Officials with the Lucas County, Iowa, sheriff's office said the Iowa
Division of Criminal Investigation was assisting in the investigation
and that an autopsy would be performed.
Marty Ordman, a spokesman for the California-based Dole Food Co.,
said the company was notified of the incident and was waiting for more
information from authorities in Yuma and Iowa.
A telephone message left Tuesday for officials at R&J trucking was
not immediately returned.
Friesleben said the lettuce in the truck was destroyed.
DES MOINES, Iowa — An Oklahoma woman whose body was found in the back of a
semitrailer in Chariton was pinned inside the trailer as it was being loaded
with lettuce in Yuma, a medical examiner said Wednesday.
Dr. John Kraemer, director of forensics for the Iowa Medical Examiner's
Office, said an autopsy indicates that Sheila Kay Ross, 47, of McLoud, Okla.,
died as a result of an accident.
"Preliminary autopsy results indicate the cause of death to be due to
compressional asphyxiation and at this point in the investigation, her death
appears to be accidental," Kraemer said.
This undated photo shows Sheila
Kay Ross, of McLoud, Okla. Ross' body was found Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, in the
back of a semitrailer delivering lettuce to a Hy-Vee grocery store
distribution center in Iowa. (AP Photo/KCCI TV, Des Moines)
woman found dead in a produce truck at an Iowa food distribution
center Tuesday was accidentally pushed into the truck by a forklift in Yuma,
Ariz., Yuma police said today.
Ross and her husband arrived at the Dole plant in Yuma Saturday night to
pick up a load of produce, police reported. Ross left the truck to get some
paperwork and never returned.DesMoinesRegister.com DesMoinesRegister.com
