Landfill investigation continues

Jackson County officials are still trying to identify the body found in a landfill Monday.
Investigators spent much of Tuesday searching for evidence in the Springhill Landfill near Campbellton.
Investigators say it looks like the victim was compressed somehow with the trash, and that is making identifying the body even harder.
Investigators said they are going to be relying heavily on DNA and they will only be able to do that by matching DNA to that of a missing person.
Jackson County Sheriff Lou Roberts said all they can tell is that the body appears to be a white male.
Residents in Jackson County feel like they’re watching a crime scene investigation show on television.
“I didn’t expect to see it in real life and especially not in little Jackson County,” Marianna resident Stephanie Mcintosh said. “I would have seen it on TV, expect to see it on TV.”
Landfill employees say nothing like this has ever happened since the landfill opened more than 20 years ago.
“The body was in pretty bad condition after going through the mechanical processes at the plant,” Roberts said.
The body’s bad condition means it may have been compressed several times before it was found Monday.
“If this body came in from a garbage pick-up point or some dumpster, it’s loaded into a truck and compressed at that location, then transferred to possibly a transfer center, which is another area, where they load it to another transport vehicle until it comes into the garbage site,” Sheriff Roberts said.
Then the trash is taken to the landfill, where large bulldozers distribute the garbage throughout the area. Roberts says the garbage is delivered from other counties and even other states, and he believes the man’s death happened sometime since Friday.
He says they think the man might be a visitor who hasn’t been reported missing because family may not realize he’s missing yet, or he could even have been someone sleeping in a dumpster.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information to contact them at 482-9648.