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Dead Model’s Injuries Don’t Match Story

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The injuries suffered by a model dug from a forest grave don’t fit a photographer’s story that he accidentally struck her with a truck, a coroner’s spokesman said Sunday.

An autopsy conducted Sunday found that injuries to Linda Sobek were “inconsistent” with such an accident, Scott Carrier said at a news conference.

It will be several weeks before a cause of death can be determined, tests, he said.

Investigators said they doubted photographer Charles Rathbun’s claim that he killed her by accident.