A person mowing his garden made the grisly discovery of {a partially} decomposed physique that authorities have now recognized as a person final seen being launched from incarceration a number of weeks earlier than, police stated.
The physique of 43-year-old Charles Warner Ingram was discovered final Friday at a farm property in Neshoba County, Mississippi, at roughly 1:45 p.m. The person mowing his garden, who was not publicly recognized, “found {a partially} decomposed physique” not removed from a highway, in line with the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Neshoba County Sheriff’s deputies, the Neshoba County health worker and Mississippi Bureau of Investigations officers canvassed the realm for clues or proof that might assist establish the physique after it was discovered earlier than, on Wednesday, authorities introduced that they’d recognized the person and that he had final been seen on August 16 on the Neshoba County Detention Facility.
“He had lately been launched by the decide on two Failure to Seem warrants although Neshoba County Justice Courtroom, officers stated on Wednesday. “His incarceration spanned from July 13, 2025, to August 14, 2025.”
A person mowing his garden made a grisly discovery when he found {a partially} decomposed physique that authorities have now recognized as a person final seen being launched from incarceration a number of weeks earlier than, police stated.
Neshoba County Sheriff’s Workplace
Police stated that Ingram was launched from the detention focus on 2 p.m. on August 14 and that two days later, on August 16, he was caught on digicam strolling to the jail and consuming water from the fountain earlier than leaving on foot, touring towards Freeway 15.
The property the place the physique was found 15 days later is situated roughly a half-mile west of Freeway 15 within the Fork Group in Mississippi, not removed from the place Ingram was final scene on digicam.
The Mississippi Forensics Laboratory was in a position to establish Ingram — who was from close by Philadelphia, Mississippi — via his fingerprints, police stated.
Investigators are at the moment trying into Ingram’s potential explanation for demise and the way he ended up on the property the place he was discovered however preliminary stories on Ingram’s situation from police after his physique was discovered prompt he “had been on the property for an prolonged time frame, probably up [to] 4 to six weeks.”
The investigation is at the moment ongoing.
