Detectives are not currently investigating the death as a homicide
Police in the US have said they don’t suspect any foul play in the death of a man whose body was found in wrapped in plastic and rolled up in a rug.
Nathan Millard’s body was discovered on March 6 near Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge, when a passerby noticed his “severely decomposed” remains in the plastic wrapping and rug in a vacant lot, WBRZ reports.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy J. Paul Jr. gave an update on the investigation into the 42-year-old’s death.
He said the coroner’s report showed the victim had “no evidence of internal or external trauma” and confirmed that the death is not currently being investigated as a homicide.
His wife, Amber, explained to WSB-TV that he disappeared while he was on a business trip with a client.
“It’s a nightmare that I wanna wake up from,” she said to the outlet.
He was first reported missing on February 23 after leaving Happy’s Irish Pub in downtown Baton Rouge in the early hours of the morning.
CCTV captured him going to a bus stations where a security guard offered him a lift home.
Millard can be seen declining the offer and didn’t appear to be in any distress.
“The security guard offered to call him a ride, get him an Uber, to the call the police for him,” Baton Rouge Police Captain Kevin Heinz said. “He didn’t appear to be in distress. She just felt as though he was out of place. He declined that offer, and he left of his own accord.”
He never returned to his hotel and when he didn’t show up to a meeting with a client the next day, the client called police to do a welfare check.
His phone and wallet were found on the street several blocks away from his hotel.
Millard’s family is worried he “died of an accidental overdose”, according to WAFB.
Authorities said they aren’t able to comment on whether drugs were involved in the man’s death, as the final autopsy and toxicology report is yet to be handed down.
Capt. Heinz said during the press conference: “It does appear that he was left there, that that’s most likely not where he died.
“I don’t want to go into details on our investigative efforts, but efforts are underway to locate and to talk to whoever may have put him there.”
He added: “We will ask whoever put him there if something happened, if there was a moment of panic, come forward. We just want to know what happened to him.”
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