Police say Bucyrus trucker dumped body at rest stop

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)

An Ohio trucker has been charged with dumping a Tennessee woman's body at a closed rest stop along a U.S. highway.

Police say the driver, Trenton Derenberger, said he was giving 36-year-old Kim Vaughn of Memphis a ride in Knoxville, Tenn., when she died in the truck's cab.

The Pickaway County Sheriff says Derenberger drove 16 hours to Ohio and dumped the body along U.S. route 23 on July 8. The partially clothed body was found the next morning by state transportation workers.

Police arrested the 33-year-old Derenberger, of Bucyrus, on Saturday. He's charged with abusing a corpse and was ordered held on $250,000 bond Monday in Circleville Municipal Court.

An autopsy didn't determine Vaughn's cause of death. Police say a toxicology report is pending.