A man died of a heart attack while burying a woman he killed, S.C. sheriff says

The Edgefield County Sheriff's Office is shown above. Local police believe that a man in Trenton, S.C., died of a heart attack while attempting to bury the body of a woman he killed. (© 2022 Google Earth)

Investigators in South Carolina have made a breakthrough in an unusual homicide case involving a man who they believe killed a woman in his backyard — then suffered a heart attack as he attempted to bury her.

Local sheriff's deputies and paramedics say they were initially called to the house in Trenton, S.C., after receiving a report of an unresponsive man lying in his yard. When they arrived at the scene, they found the collapsed body of Joseph McKinnon, 60. Also nearby: the body of Patricia Ruth Dent, 65, wrapped in trash bags, lying in a freshly dug pit