OCTOBER 4, 2016
WELL KNOWN MILO RESIDENT WILLIAM ‘Scottie’ FANNIN HAD BEEN MISSING FOR NEARLY TEN MONTHS
The Kentucky State Police have reported that human remains found last Tuesday, September 27, in a remote wooded area of the Milo community of Martin County have been identified as a man who has been missing since early December 2015.
Troopers say the remains are those of William “Scottie” Fannin, who was 37 years old at the time of his disappearance.
Family members reported Fannin missing last December. Over the last several months, his family offered an reward for information on his whereabouts in a monetary amount that initially started at $1500, a price that was later increased several times of various cash amounts to a very recent reward of $10,000.
Fannin was identified Monday by the Kentucky State Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort. The investigation is ongoing with additional testing that will be done to help determine the exact cause of his death.
During a search of a lake last December near Fannin’s home in Milo, crews found multiple vehicles but no sign of Fannin.
While no cause of is known yet about William “Scottie” Fannin’s death, the discovery of his remains and the circumstances surrounding the matter of his missing case have further raised speculation to an almost fever pitch among Fannin’s family, friends, and residents of the Milo area, and Martin County in general, that Mr. Fannin’s death was likely the result of some sinister motive leading to the cause of the state nature of a criminal homicide.
