On Monday, June 6, at approximately 11:43 a.m., Sergeant B. W. Mitchell and Corporal Brandon McCormick of the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a report of a body being found on the embankment of Howard’s Creek along Camp Ann Bailey Road in the Caldwell area.
Upon arrival the officers requested the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Team to process the scene. The body was subsequently transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Charleston for identification and cause of death.
The White Sulphur Springs Police Department later confirmed that the body had been identified to be a missing man from White Sulphur Springs, John H. Deaver, age 65. He had been reported missing by his family on the weekend of May 28.
Members of the West Virginia State Police, White Sulphur Springs Police Department and the Lewisburg Fire Department provided on scene assistance.
Corporal Brandon McCormick of the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s office is the lead investigator.