{"id":74521,"date":"2016-03-17T08:29:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74521"},"modified":"2016-03-18T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:20:18","slug":"autopsy-indiana-woman-died-from-gunshot-to-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/17\/autopsy-indiana-woman-died-from-gunshot-to-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana woman died from gunshot wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING COUNTY &#8212; An Indiana woman whose body was found on an abandoned property on the Ohio-Indiana State Line was shot to death, according to an autopsy conducted in the case.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74522\" title=\"MGN Online graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Murder-investigation-artwork-3-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Murder investigation artwork 3-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Preliminary results of the autopsy, which was conducted by the Lucas County Coroner\u2019s Office, showed Wilma A. Schwartz of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was killed by a single gunshot to the head. Paulding County Coroner Dr. Joseph Kuhn released the results on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz\u2019s body was found lying in the grass at a vacant property at 10488 Paulding County Road 1, located between Antwerp and Payne in western Paulding County, late Monday morning. Workers who had come to the property to demolish an old garage found the body and called 9-1-1.<\/p>\n<p>The body had no identification on it, but authorities were later able to identify it as Schwartz, who had been missing since March 9.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Meanwhile, a second body was found in Paulding County on Wednesday, when a mushroom hunter came across a man\u2019s body while walking in Rochester Cemetery, near the intersection of U.S. 127 and Paulding County Road 424. Dr. Kuhn said it appeared that body had been there for several weeks. An autopsy is also being conducted on that body to try and determine the cause of death, as well as assist in identifying the body.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to information on Schwartz and the unidentified man, law enforcement agencies were also seeking the whereabouts of Schwartz\u2019s car, a red Pontiac Sunfire. The vehicle was later found about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a business in Huntington County, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding either of these two cases should contact the sheriff\u2019s office at 419.399.3791, leave information via Facebook at \u201cPaulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office,\u201d view the sheriff\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldingohsheriff.com\">www.pauldingohsheriff.com<\/a> and leave an email for the sheriff, or leave an anonymous tip on the website by scrolling to the bottom of any page and clicking on \u201csend us an anonymous tip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information PAULDING COUNTY &#8212; An Indiana woman whose body was found on an abandoned property on the Ohio-Indiana State Line was shot to death, according to an autopsy conducted in the case. Preliminary results of the autopsy, which was conducted by the Lucas County Coroner\u2019s Office, showed Wilma A. Schwartz of Fort Wayne, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 05:30:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}