Suspect said he found the body

The suspect used his cell phone to dial 911.
By SHERRI L. SHAULIS
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WEATHERSFIELD -- A Liberty man charged with the death of a Youngstown man told police where they could find the body.
Weathersfield Township police said that Clayton Booker, 38, who gave an address as Knights Inn Motel in Liberty, called them at 5:17 a.m. Saturday and said he found a body.
Officers arrived within minutes and later identified the body as Kevin J. Dietz, 30, of Steel Street, Youngstown.
Booker remains in the Trumbull County Jail charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond was set at $10,000. A preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday in Niles Municipal Court.
Booker used his cell phone to call police.
The taped 911 call was first answered by the Southington post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. It was transferred to the Youngstown Police Department, then to the Trumbull County 911 dispatch center because the body was found in Weathersfield Township.
During the call, Booker can be heard telling both dispatchers he stopped on Bundy Lane, off Salt Springs Road, to urinate and saw the body.
A female patrol dispatcher is heard telling Booker to stay in his vehicle, a white station wagon, and a 911 dispatcher instructs him to turn on the vehicle's flashers.
Toward the end of the call, Booker is heard advising a Youngstown police officer, and the officer also speaks with the dispatchers. The call cuts off once a Weathersfield Township officer arrives on the scene.
Reports from Weathersfield Township do not indicate how Booker became a suspect in the investigation. The investigator, Capt. Michael Naples, declined to comment, saying the case is still under investigation.
Dietz was found lying in the dirt-and-gravel road, across from the LAS Recycling Landfill about 1,500 feet from Salt Springs Road.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk completed an autopsy, but details are not being released while police investigate, a spokeswoman from the coroner's office said.
Police reports say a black substance believed to be grease was found on Dietz's right pant leg and left shoe, and abrasions and marks were found on his abdomen, forehead, top of the head and left small finger. There were also dried dirt and mud on his jeans, shirt, face and hands, according to the report.
Officers also noted tire tracks on either side of Dietz's body and "an area of deposited dirt/slag [indicating acceleration] just west of victim's body."
Dietz, a masonry worker at Rucci Construction Co., is survived by his wife and five children.
Wife questioned
His wife, Bobbi Jo, 27, was questioned early Sunday by Weathersfield police responding to a call of a suspicious vehicle at the Petro Truck Stop along Salt Springs Road.
Reports say she told police she had been staying with a friend on Meridian Road for several days because she and her husband were fighting and she was in the lot around 3:15 a.m. Sunday to visit her boyfriend, a truck driver from Kentucky.
In searching her vehicle, reports say, officers found her coat with her husband's driver's license and wristwatch inside.
Police also searched the truck driver's Freightliner and found a Youngstown woman hiding in the rear. The driver said she did not have permission to be in the truck.
Patricia M. Hawkins, 41, of Thornton Street, was arrested at the scene on a charge of criminal trespass.
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