{"id":1076,"date":"2010-07-30T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2010-07-30T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:53:13","slug":"news-brief-id-found-with-body-near-mossyrock-belongs-to-murder-suspect-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"News brief: ID found with body near Mossyrock belongs to murder suspect, sheriff’s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sheriff revealed this morning that identification found with the body discovered at Riffe Lake belonged to a Colorado man wanted for murder.<\/p>\n

The find on the shore’s edge of the East Lewis County lake was reported about 6 p.m. Wednesday by a boater, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

The body was badly decomposed.<\/p>\n

Lewis County Sheriff Steve Mansfield said this morning positive identification has not been made but detectives found the ID in a backpack next to the body. It belongs to a 49-year-old Denver man wanted in connection with the murder of his girlfriend in March in Denver, according to Mansfield.<\/p>\n

The sheriff said the wanted man’s vehicle was found in April near the Blue Lake Campground outside of Randle. It was impounded and its owner not located, he said.<\/p>\n

The Blue Lake Campground is on the Cispus River in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest – more than 30 miles from where the body was found.<\/p>\n

The wanted man’s name is James A. Sprague, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n

Detectives began processing the scene at the lake where the body was found – near the Mossyrock Dam fishing area – yesterday morning. Sheriff’s Cmdr. Steve Aust said there were other items found that suggested the individual had a makeshift camp set up there.<\/p>\n

Detectives are working with the Lewis County Coroner’s Office to determine the cause of death and make a positive identification, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The sheriff revealed this morning that identification found with the body discovered at Riffe Lake belonged to a Colorado man wanted for murder. The find on the shore’s edge of the East Lewis County lake was reported about 6 p.m. Wednesday by a boater, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}