Sheriff calls death of woman found in a ditch a case of homicide

CREATED Oct. 1, 2012

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A man may be booked into jail today for the death of a woman whose body was found in a ditch near 55th St. S. and Meridian. 

Sedgwick County Sheriff Bob Hinshaw told KFDI a man is scheduled to be booked into jail on a murder charge.  The sheriff said detectives had been following up two or three leads since the body was found Sunday morning by a passerby.  

Hinshaw said there was some trauma to the body, but did not have a cause of death. 

The woman has not been identified.