A decomposed body was pulled from the water in Lexington Saturday afternoon. It happened at a private fishing club off of Richmond Road. We spoke to the groundskeeper who made the discovery.
Part of David Smoot’s job at the Ellerslie Fishing Club is to check for anything out of the ordinary. “Just checking the lake, trespassers, things like that,” says Smoot. Late Saturday afternoon, something caught his eye. “A pair of tennis shoes floating next to each other was definitely a clue in a sense,” remembers Smoot.
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Smoot was hoping his gut instinct was wrong. “My first inclination was I hope it’s not what I think it is,” says Smoot. He then started to pull whatever it was out. “I checked it, put it immediately back in the water and called police.”
Police removed the body but it was so badly decomposed they weren’t able to tell if it was a man or a woman or how long it had been there. “I would say quite a while, it did have a large winter jacket on.”
The Ellerslie Fishing Club is the 3rd oldest of it’s kind in the country. It’s a popular spot off Richmond Road, but not for activity like this.
“We still we do have trespassers at times, but most of the time they’re here to look to fish or to maybe camp out or something,” says Smoot.
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
