Body parts found three days after double fatal crash in Metro East - STLtoday.com
The coroner of St. Clair County has apologized for his investigator who overlooked the body parts from the crash Saturday along Interstate 255, in which two men were killed. “It was a misstep,” said Rick Stone, the coroner. The shocking discovery has compounded the devastation of Candice Amizich, whose fiancé, Jared McPherson, died in the crash. “We were just enraged and couldn’t believe they would treat him like that,” she said. The crash Saturday killed McPherson, 25, of Bethalto, and Brian Lee Hubbs, 37, of Alton. The two worked together as house painters and had left a job in Waterloo before their pickup crashed Saturday afternoon, Amizich said. The 2000 Chevrolet Silverado truck was heading north in the far left lane of Interstate 255 near Collinsville Road about 4:30 p. m. , police said. The truck went off the road, down an embankment about 400 feet and hit a tree before bursting into flames, police said. A passer-by who saw the crash tried to put out the fire with his personal fire extinguisher. Amizich and McPherson’s sister, Karissa McPherson, went to the crash site on Tuesday afternoon. Amizich said she brought some flowers to lay as a memorial, but they also wanted to find a special work knife that McPherson’s friend had given him and he carried daily. They saw pathways through weeds leading away from the tree, apparently. Source: www.stltoday.com
