Home

Man Dies in Burning Car at Arkansas Cemetery

May 10, 2004

The body of a man was found in a burning car Sunday at a cemetery where he and his wife had gone to visit his mother-in-law's grave, police said.

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) -- The body of a man was found in a burning car Sunday at a cemetery where he and his wife had gone to visit his mother-in-law's grave, police said.

R.V. Davis, 78, had been sitting in the car while his wife, Joy, visited the grave. Joy Davis went back to the car and saw the fire after hearing her husband yelling, but neither she nor a bystander could get him out of the vehicle, said Sgt. Robert D. Rawlinson, a spokesman for the Pine Bluff Police Department.

Joy Davis told police her husband had stayed in the car because he was in poor health and couldn't get out without assistance.

Police did not know what caused the fire.

R.V. Davis' body was sent to the state Crime Laboratory in Little Rock, about 40 miles northwest, to determine the cause of death.