NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
July 11, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

FOUL PLAY RULED OUT IN DEATH OF LAUREL HILL RESIDENT

    The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office announces that foul play has been ruled out as the cause of death in Monday’s discovery of a woman’s body inside her car.

    42-year old Debra Lynn Josey of 6255 Will Owens Road was found behind the wheel of her car around 8 a.m. Monday after she’d pulled off State Road 85 south of Crestview.

    An autopsy performed Tuesday did not determine an official cause of death. The Medical Examiner is waiting for the results of toxicology tests that should be available sometime in the next eight to twelve weeks.

    Investigators initially deemed the death suspicious because Josey had bruises on her body.  However the autopsy revealed they were old bruises and not a factor in Josey’s death.

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