MPs Are Investigating Death Notice Hoax
From Times Wire Reports
Military police are investigating a hoax in which a man wearing an Army uniform falsely told the wife of a soldier that her husband had been killed in Iraq.
Investigators are trying to determine why the man delivered the false death notice Feb. 10 and whether he was a soldier or a civilian wearing a military uniform.
“We’re taking it extremely seriously. Whatever motivation was behind it, it was a sick thing to do,” said Ft. Stewart spokesman Lt. Col. Robert Whetstone.
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