A georgia couple s quest to learn what happened to their son who was found dead in a rolled up wrestling mat in his high school gym took a horrifying turn when a second autopsy found the teen.
Student found dead rolled in gym mat.
A preliminary investigation and autopsy concluded that the death was accidental.
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of the south georgia teen found dead in a rolled gym mat has been dismissed by a federal judge.
The parents of a georgia high school student who was found dead in a rolled up gym mattress five years ago will exhume their son s body for the second time in order to prove the 17 year old s.
On january 11 2013 the body of kendrick johnson october 10 1995 january 10 2013 was discovered inside a vertical rolled up mat in the gymnasium of lowndes high school in valdosta in the u s.
Lowndes county is located near the georgia florida border about 200 miles south of atlanta.
He was stuck upside down in the middle of a wrestling mat that had been rolled up and.
He was stuck upside down in the middle of a wrestling mat that had been rolled up and.
Johnson s body was found in 2013 in a rolled up gym mat at lowndes county high school.
The parents of a teenage student found dead and rolled up in a gym mat at a us high school believe their son met with foul play and were shocked to discover he had been buried with organs missing.
School officials found johnson s body in the gym after his parents reported him missing the night before.
Johnson s family had a private pathologist conduct a second autopsy.
Authorities said he suffocated after falling into the mat while trying to retrieve a shoe.