A body believed to be of a 1999 University graduate was found Friday buried on the northeast corner of campus, Alan Mayberry, Wood County’s prosecuting attorney, confirmed Saturday.
The site where the body was buried is used as a dump for the Union construction project and is located between the Wood County airport and the Perry Field House.
Autopsy results have not been announced yet, but it is believed the remains are of Michelle Rizzi Salerno, a former University student and a graduate student at Michigan State University. She has been missing from East Lansing, Mich. since last June.
Although authorities won’t confirm yet where they received information on the location of the body, police reportedly led her ex-husband, Dennis Michael Salerno–a suspect in her disappearance–to the construction dump on campus at about 10 p.m. Thursday night.
Salerno also met with the Michigan State Police last Tuesday.
At about 11 p.m. Thursday he was reportedly returned to the Wood County jail where he is awaiting trial for the murder of Larry McClannahan, a truck driver found stabbed to death at a Lake Township truck stop last July. Rizzi was reported missing four days before McClannahan was found.
More details will be released some time early this week, according to Mayberry.