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Show More Warrants In Corpsman Death FARMINGTON Two more youths are being sought in connection w ith the death of a Weber Basin Job Corpsman w hose body was found floating in a Riverdale canal Sept. 17, 1979. TWO SECOND-degree murder mur-der warrants have been issued from the Davis County Sheriffs Sher-iffs Department naming the suspects as Ramiro Hernandez, Hernan-dez, 18, and Patricio Elizondo, 19, no addresses listed. The two suspects, according to the warrants, are being sought for allegedly taking part in the beating and subsequent drowning of Clifford Rcinecke, 17, who at the time of his death lived in Wichita, Kans., according to police records. re-cords. AT FIRST, the death was termed accidental, and the case was closed in November of 1979. However, information later obtained through a very long and extensive investigation by the Davis County Sheriff s Department De-partment revealed that the body may have been beaten prior to the drow ning and that the death should be termed a homicide. THIS information led law enforcement officers to have the body of Reinccke exhum-erated exhum-erated and it was determined then that the youth suffered a severe beating which may have attributed to his death. The warrants for two suspects sus-pects are in addition to the arrest of a 19-year-old man. Floyd Sherman Lee, of Philadelphia, Phi-ladelphia, who is being held in Davis County Jail as a suspect in the same death. It is being determined at this time if the latter suspect should be tried as an adult or as a juvenile since he was under 18 years of ige at the time of the death. GRB |