The caller to the “Elliot in the Morning” radio show on Friday had a bizarre story to tell.
He’d seen a dead person.
“It was amazing,” the caller told Elliot Segal, host of the popular drive-time show on DC101, about coming across the body at a campsite in Frederick County, Maryland. “This may sound sick, but I’ve always wanted to come upon something like that and luckily it was months old, so that was nice.”
“Tell me you called the police,” Segal interjected.
“Probably today,” the caller, who identified himself only as Joseph responded. “I had a dream last night that I called them, so, no, not yet.”
“Dude, call the cops!” Segal replied.
After talking for a few more minutes, the caller, who told Segal he found the body 18 days earlier and that it looked as if it had been there for several months, said he would contact the police that day.
A little after noon on Friday police in Frederick, a city of around 80,000 people about 45 miles northwest of Washington, said they had located a body.
“We are aware of information shared earlier today on a local radio station regarding a deceased individual found in a wooded area off *East Street and Carroll Creek Crossing,” the Frederick Police Department posted on its Facebook page. “Detectives from our Criminal Investigations Division responded, located the individual, and are now conducting an active investigation.”
On Monday, department spokeswoman Samantha Long clarified in an email that the body had been found “in a wooded area near the roundabout” at Monocacy Boulevard and East Street, not far from Interstate 70. Long said the investigation into the grim discovery was ongoing and that police had not yet identified the remains or the cause and manner of death.
Long did not provide any details about how the department learned the location of the body or if police had been contacted by the caller to the radio show.
“We’re aware of the speculation surrounding this case, including comments made on [‘Elliot in the Morning’],” she said. “Detectives are pursuing all relevant information as part of the investigation.”
Efforts to reach Segal to ask about the caller were unsuccessful.
Long said there have been no arrests related to the incident.
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