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Evidence of Corpse Found Inside Eastside Joliet Explosion Site: Police
Will County Sheriff's Department deputy chief Ken Kaupas said officers had a warrant to enter the house and a dog found evidence of a cadaver on the site.
This story was written by Patch Editor Joseph Hosey
Police cadaver dogs indicated a corpse had been inside an east Joliet house just days before it exploded, police said.
Police armed with a search warrant went into the house with the dog within the last week, said Deputy Chief Ken Kaupas of the Will county Sheriff's Departmet.
Police were searching for a missing resident of the home, 52-year-old Anne Gay.
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Gay's boyfriend, James Borg, voluntarily submitted to questioning by police last week, Kaupas said. Borg's lawyer accompanied him to the interview, Kaupas said.
Borg was on the second floor of the house when it exploded Sunday night, Kaupas said. A neighbor pulled him out of the burning building.
Borg suffered burns to 70 percent of his body. He was taken to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox and then transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
A state fire marshal determined the house was intentionally blown up, Kaupas said. A gas line to a clothes drier was disconnected and the gas valve left open, he said.
Police cadaver dogs indicated a corpse had been inside an east Joliet house just days before it exploded, police said.
Police armed with a search warrant went into the house with the dog within the last week, said Deputy Chief Ken Kaupas of the Will county Sheriff's Departmet.
Police were searching for a missing resident of the home, 52-year-old Anne Gay.
READ ALSO: Explosion Destroys House of Missing Woman; Boyfriend Badly Injured and Man Burned in House Explosion Menaced Neighbors: Residents
Gay's boyfriend, James Borg, voluntarily submitted to questioning by police last week, Kaupas said. Borg's lawyer accompanied him to the interview, Kaupas said.
Borg was on the second floor of the house when it exploded Sunday night, Kaupas said. A neighbor pulled him out of the burning building.
Borg suffered burns to 70 percent of his body. He was taken to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox and then transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
A state fire marshal determined the house was intentionally blown up, Kaupas said. A gas line to a clothes drier was disconnected and the gas valve left open, he said.
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