Authorities: Man Dies While Burying Woman He Strangled

Authorities: Man Dies While Burying Woman He Strangled
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TRENTON, S.C.—A 60-year-old man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in their South Carolina backyard, investigators said.

Deputies found Joseph Anthony McKinnon’s body Saturday after neighbors called and reported an unconscious man in a yard in Trenton, the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.