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It was after midnight when an odd call came over the scanner, something that reminded me the loneliness of the cb radio late at night. All quiet and then someone in a quiet voice speaks softly of something very dramatic.
Years ago it was two truckers with one calling to the other : "y'all right?"... Silence "not too much farther, y'all right?" ... silence. More silence. Finally, another voice in a drawl, "yeah, all right. still back here, eyes are open for a while longer". Then silence again.
The night shift is sort of spooky if you've never been a part of it. Its not all neon and thumping music.
Tonite, 2 hours ago the Sheriff signed off and told dispatch he'd be out of service at home at 10pm, the dispatcher wished him a good evening and he returned the sentiment. Just after 12a.m. the dispatcher called out a unit number I didn't recognize and also called the New Home paramedic and a rescue unit for a 109d that had just been found. They verified that the police were enroute.
One sheriffs officer requested the unit on scene "rope it off" for him.
Didn't take much for a stranger like me to figure that was the sole county homicide investigator responding with the ambulance to the discovery of a dead body. A dead body discovered in the midnight hour in Sleepy Hollow (I'm not making it up, take a peek for yourself) :
***************never mind, for some reason mindsay is refusing to post image links from google even though they appear in the initial blog entry. here's a link, instead : http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=142+willow+lane,+Trenton,+Dade,+Georgia&sll=34.981557,-85.598409&sspn=0.007577,0.018282&ie=UTF8&ll=34.981803,-85.599074&spn=0.007577,0.018282&t=h&z=16 ***************************
I checked local 10-codes and found it in fact refers to a deceased patient, not a dead body, so I can only guess if my homicide unit guess is correct, that it is a formality. But there was an awful lot of hush-hush discrete talk on the radio as units found their way down to the gravel end of Willow Lane. Notifications were made, coordination between the counties (I'm guessing a Marion County, TN hospital ambulance responded for a local patient and then due to the death, had to notify our county in which the residence lies).
But still, to look at the rural location and think that at that very moment, in the dark stillness of northwest Georgia a dozen people were alerted to come to the aid, and to the final care for someone. At midnight on a quiet spring Monday night. It was kind of sad. Not the stuff they make tv shows out of but something all your local responders have experienced many times before and more haunting than any crime or accident scene.
Peace to the new spirit, whoever it may be.bb.
