BY PEPPER FISHER
Jefferson County – There’s a mystery to solve in the death of a Port Angeles man whose body was missing for days after rolling his truck last week near the intersection of Highway 104 and Highway 101 in Jefferson County.
43-year-old Curtis R. Denny was traveling west on 104 around 6:30am last Wednesday when his Ford Ranger left the roadway and rolled, coming to rest in the westbound ditch in a wooded area.
When a State Trooper arrived at the scene, Denny was nowhere to be found. The trooper reported that if Denny’s body had been ejected, it couldn’t have been thrown very far because of the trees, and after a search of the area turned up nothing, it was suspected that Denny had left the scene after the crash.
That all changed on Saturday when someone reported finding a body some 300 feet off the roadway. Trooper Katherine Weatherwax gave us this report.
“The body was found not too far from the roadway, but they did bring in the cadaver dog. They only searched a certain distance away, and had they gone up a few more hundred feet, they would have probably have found him. They just didn’t search far enough. So, we have detectives trying to figure out, was he walking for a certain amount of distance? Did he get hit as he was walking on the roadway? These are all questions we have, so the autopsy will figure more information out for us.”