Street Life

A report from the city’s “Concrete Killing Fields.” 

by LEONARD GILL

Pat Morgan doesn’t know how a Memphis man named John Marshall, age 65, died in November 1987. But she knows this:

A bulldozer operator at a city dump discovered Marshall’s body. Which means Marshall had been collected from one of the city’s trash bins, where perhaps he’d sought warmth against the cold. And perhaps he was already dead (from hypothermia?) when a sanitation truck emptied the contents of that bin, compacted the contents, and drove to the dump. Reports at the time listed the following items found on Marshall’s remains: two coats, three pairs of pants, and 24 cents.

Source: https://www.memphisflyer.com…