SOUTH OGDEN, Utah — A man was found dead among some brush on the side of a road in South Ogden Friday afternoon, and police say it's likely the body has been there for a while.
Claudio Morales was driving down Washington Boulevard with his cousin around 3 p.m. Friday afternoon when he saw something strange in the brush on the side of the road at about 4800 South, near Bonneville High School.
"When we drove past, my cousin saw a backpack that had been thrown away, and there were two shoes," he said.
The two came back half an hour later and discovered a dead man lying in the bushes.
"My cousin was shaking in the car," said Morales. "We both were afraid.”
They immediately called police, and they noticed the body was decomposing and looked like it had been there for months, he said.
"We asked, 'How is it possible that no one, no one on that road — so many cars drive by, a lot of police drive by — noticed?'" said Morales.
The South Ogden Police Department confirmed a few hours later that they were investigating the body Morales and his cousin discovered. There had never been a missing person report filed for the man, officials told FOX 13 News.
"It's sad because you don't know if he was a homeless person or if he had a house," said Morales.
The man's name has not been released. An investigation into his death is underway.
