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	Coroner: tentative ID on body found last week by Tonya Brown
	Posted: 11.30.2009 at 12:02 PM save send print

Tonya Brown

Tonya has been reporting stories out of the Pee Dee for 10 years.

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A badly decomposed body found in a ditch Thanksgiving Day has been tentatively identified as that of a missing Florence County man, Bernard Cannon.

Florence County Coroner Bubba Matthews said he's waiting on autopsy results to positively confirm the body is that of Cannon.

The body was found in a ditch in Pamplico.

Matthews says Cannon has been missing for about 14 days.

Matthews is also waiting on autopsy results to determine a cause of death.

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