The body of a man missing for 10 days was discovered Thursday inside a wrecked car in a ravine not far from downtown Eatonton.
Brandon Ingram was last seen Monday, May 18 after he picked up a friend’s 2011 Dodge Challenger in order to clean it. Shortly afterward, he vanished.
Investigators believe his body had been in that ravine the entire time.
His friend thought Ingram might have stolen the car, and the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office investigated it both as a possible auto theft and a missing person.
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Ten days later, someone driving down Oconee Springs Road about a mile east of the courthouse spotted skid marks and investigated. The driver spotted the missing car smashed at the bottom of a densely overgrown ravine about 25 feet off the roadway.
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said Ingram’s body was inside, still in the same clothes he was wearing 10 days earlier. He believes that Ingram wrecked the modified Challenger.
“He’s a good person,” said his uncle, Stanley Ingram. “He’s been gone since last Monday, so I wondered where he was.”
Stanley Ingram said he lives just down the road from where they found his nephew’s body.
“I came down this road yesterday morning,” Ingram said. “I passed right by here, but I had no idea that he would be right there. I had no idea.”
Brandon Ingram would have turned 30 years old on the day his body was discovered.
Friends said there were a lot of social media rumors circulating in the last 10 days about what possibly happened to Ingram. Sills hopes the discovery of his body will put those rumors to rest.
