Body found on Budd Inlet is identified
Published 8:13 pm Wednesday, March 9, 2011
OLYMPIA — The Thurston County coroner says two men whose bodies were found on Puget Sound beaches in the county in the past week both died of drowning.
Coroner Gary Warnock says a body found Tuesday on the shore of Budd Inlet is that of 29-year-old Jason Edward Leppert of Olympia.
Sheriff’s Lt. Greg Elwin says there’s nothing to indicate Leppert’s death was the result of a crime.
Last Saturday, a kayaker found the body of 32-year-old Doy “Marty” Pierce.
Sheriff’s detectives and Olympia police detectives tell The Olympian they are investigating how the bodies got into the water. Detectives say there is no indication the men knew each other.
