PSA: Digging Ditches in this heat can kill you

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Police allege a South Carolina man was in the process of burying a woman he had just killed Saturday when he had a heart attack and died, too.

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Edgefield County Sheriff Jody Rowland said deputies responded to a call of “an unresponsive male laying in his yard,” in Trenton on May 7, according to reports. Rowland said deputies arrived to find Joseph Anthony McKinnon, 60, dead in the backyard of his residence.

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They reportedly began the process of notifying next of kin, but while investigating the scene, police say, they uncovered a second body placed in a “freshly dug pit.” They say that was Patricia Ruth Dent, 65, who was living with McKinnon in the home.

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