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J.D. Sumner

SMITHVILLE — Investigators say that evidence suggests foul play may have been involved in the death of a 82-year-old Lee County resident Arthur Mosely, who was found Tuesday morning at his home just outside of Smithville.

Around 9:30 a.m., family members found the body of Mosely in his home at 104 Pettis Road.

Lee County Sheriff’s Department investigator Miles O’Quinn said his office was notified by Smithville police and officers found the body when they checked the home just after 9:30 a.m.

“We notified the GBI and secured a search warrant to search the premises,” O’Quinn said.

As family, friends and neighbors gathered in front of the small house on Pettis Road, GBI agents began the tedious task of searching for evidence that would indicate how Mosely died.

“Right now, we just don’t know how he died,” GBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Danny Jackson said. “We won’t know anything for sure until an autopsy is completed, but there are indications that foul play was involved.”

Outside of the home, agents appeared to make plaster casts of footprints and hovered around a truck near a shed in Mosely’s yard.

Jackson said that Mosely appeared to live alone and said he was unsure whether Mosely worked outside of the home.

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