The Coweta

County Sheriff's Department has poitively identified one of the bodies

found this week on Interstate 85.

But Sheriff

Mike Yeager said the name of the victim won't be released until the next

of kin is notified.

The incident

started unfolding Monday afternoon when the Coweta County Sheriff's department

received a call from Douglas County about a possible missing and endangered

person.

Douglas officials

said the person was driving a GMC-1500 series truck, possibly near Interstate

85, south of Exit 47.

When the Coweta

officials arrived on the scene, Yeager said, the truck was loaded with

30 bags of 40 pound potting soil. Under the bags of soil, the truck was

loaded with loose potting soil and sand.

Officers of

the Coweta County Sheriff's Department, the Newnan Police Department and

the Georgia Bureau of Investigation did the investigation and discovered

the bodies of three Hispanic males underneath the soil.

The bodies

are currently at the state's crime lab for autopises and further investigation,

Yeager said.

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