Pate, Joseph K.
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- —
- Record count
- 1
- Sources
- life_events
- Places seen
- Interstate 55 rest area north of Marston, New Madrid County, Missouri
- First event date
- 1977-08-09
- Last event date
- 1977-08-09
Timeline — 1 event
- 1977-08-09 Age 33, of New Madrid County; found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck at an apparent robbery-murder on Interstate 55 about a mile north of the Marston rest area; died from a single small-caliber shot sometime between 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday; his wife Mrs. Pate, following him home from Blytheville, Ark., spotted the stopped truck and found his body; New Madrid County sheriff's office reports no leads, no weapon found.
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