A Chattooga County woman was found dead at the county’s main dump after officials traced back a garbage truck that had emptied dumpsters she frequently searched, officials said.
Deputies were called around 2 p.m. Friday to a home in west Summerville about a possible stolen vehicle, according to a joint press release by county and city law enforcement. Investigators learned the caller’s mother, Kimberly Lindsey, drove away in a vehicle owned by the caller’s grandmother and had not been heard from since.
Family members later found some of Lindsey’s belongings behind the Family Dollar store on Commerce Street, near the dumpsters she was known to search for discarded items, officials said.
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The sheriff and his chief deputy went to the store and spoke to Lindsey’s boyfriend, who said he had recently pulled her out of a dumpster at a different location after she became stuck, a press release said. The boyfriend told officials she was trapped partly because of some level of prescription intoxication.