On Tuesday, May 7, 1946 (four days after Starks' murder) at approximately 6 a.m., the body of a man was found on the Kansas City Southern Railway tracks north of Texarkana, near Ogden. He was lying face-down beside the tracks with his head pointed north. The man's left arm (severed at the elbow) and leg (severed at the hip) were on the inside of the tracks, and had been cut off by a freight train that had passed by at 5:30 a.m. The body was taken to the Phillips Funeral Home in Ashdown for examination. The coroner's jury's verdict stated, "death at the hands of persons unknown", and that "he was dead before being placed on the railroad tracks."