Sequoyah County sheriff calls man's death 'bizarre', to bring in spontaneous combustion 'experts'
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Posted: 02/21/2013
SEQUOYAH COUNTY, Okla. - A Green Country sheriff is bringing in out-of-state experts to investigate what he believes could be a case of spontaneous human combustion.
Sequoyah County sheriff Ron Lockhart says experts from Pennsylvania are headed to Green Country to investigate a man's death.
Relatives found 65-year-old Donald Vanzandt's burned body Monday inside a home near Muldrow.
"It's a bizarre case I've never seen before," Lockhart said. "I mean you've got a hole in the kitchen where the fire started and you've got a body and the body is so incinerated, the only thing you have left are his hands and feet and a head."
A medical examiner will soon perform an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.
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