UPDATED, 2:45PM 7/31/2020: The Greene County coroner said it cannot determine how Cheryl Coker was killed.
The 46-year old disappeared almost two years ago and her body was found in April.
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The coroner’s report said due to the condition of the remains “the precise cause of death can’t be determined.”
Dayton 24/7 Now’s Molly Reed asked University of Dayton Law Professor Thaddeus Hoffmeister what this means for the case.
“The prosecution has an uphill battle. It’s similar for example let’s say you don’t have a body,” he said. “The defense doesn’t have to prove anything, the government has to prove that someone, whoever that defendant is, actually took her life.”
The coroner’s report also said the circumstances and investigation around her death suggest foul play and the cause of death is “homicidal violence of unknown etiology.”
Hoffmeister said it means prosecutors will only have surrounding evidence to go off of and convicting a homicide based on that is extremely difficult.
“They could look at other things like look how they found her vehicle, would she have willingly left her mother who had a diagnosis, and her children, the keys to the car,” he said.
Cheryl’s husband Bill has been police’s only named suspect but he still walks free.
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She went missing after dropping her daughter off at school. Her car was found in a Kroger parking lot with her purse and other belongings.
Hoffmeister said based on what’s been presented to the public from the case, prosecutors will need a lot more evidence.
“They may have facts I don’t know but the facts that I’ve read in the newspaper, the media outlets, on television, they don’t have enough to go forward,” he said.
Riverside Police asked Ohio BCI to take the lead on the case back in June.
A BCI spokesperson said the case is still active and ongoing. They ask anyone with information to call 855-BCI-Ohio or submit tips through the website.
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XENIA, Ohio (WKEF/WRGT) – The Greene County Coroner’s Office released the autopsy report on the remains of Cheryl Coker.
The report, conducted by the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office, indicates that a precise cause of death could not be determined, due to the near complete skeletonization of the remains.
Coker disappeared Oct. 1, 2018, after she dropped off her daughter at school. Riverside police eventually began investigating her case as a murder and named her husband, Bill Coker, as the main suspect. He has not been charged.
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Coker’s body was found in April in a wooded area along Waynesville Jamestown Road in Caesarscreek Township in Greene County.
The autopsy report says that the “cause of death is related to foul play and as such a common term used to certify the cause of death is homicidal violence of unknown etiology.”
However, the autopsy report indicated the coroner found no evidence of trauma to the skeletalized remains.
“There is no reported history to suggest the remains were taken to the wooded area for any other purpose but to conceal the death,” the autopsy report reads.
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