The Herald, Sharon, PA Published Friday, May 30, 2003

Teens implicate local man
in burial of woman's body

By Amanda Smith-Teutsch
Herald Staff Writer

Two teenage boys who buried the body of a 22-year-old Ohio woman testified Thursday against the Pymatuning Township man implicated in her death.

Richard D. Hodge, 44, of 38 W. 10th St. Mobile Home Park, faced a preliminary hearing Thursday before District Justice William L. Fagley on charges of abuse of a corpse and two counts of corrupting minors in the death of Naomi Lynn Bright of New Lyme, Ohio.

Taking the stand were 16-year-old Shawn Hodge, Richard Hodge's son, and 15-year-old Ryan Nelitz.

Mrs. Bright died May 11, possibly of a cocaine overdose. According to court documents, she was seen leaving the Causeway Bar in Andover, Ohio, with Hodge at about 2 a.m. that day. When she didn't return home by May 13, her husband, Larry, reported her missing.



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