{"id":128878,"date":"2026-07-14T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:27:11","slug":"bamberg-county-coroner-identifies-body-found-as-missing-denmark-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128878\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamberg County Coroner identifies body found as missing Denmark man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DENMARK, S.C. (WJBF) \u2013 The Bamberg County Coroner&#8217;s Office has confirmed Monday that the body found near railroad tracks in Denmark, S.C. is that of 61-year-old Bruce Staley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Staley was declared missing by family in June;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/m-worried-death-brother-searches-213219079.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staley was declared missing by family in June<\/a>, and a search continued in the days after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) reported a body was located Wednesday, July 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staley&#8217;s next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The circumstances surrounding Mr. Staley&#8217;s death remain under investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), the Bamberg County Coroner&#8217;s Office, and the Denmark Police Department,&#8221; a statement released from the Bamberg County Coroner&#8217;s Office on July 13 reads in part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No additional information is being released at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJBF.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjbf.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJBF.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENMARK, S.C. (WJBF) \u2013 The Bamberg County Coroner&#8217;s Office has confirmed Monday that the body found near railroad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[54966,62682,27,26,57476,62372,62681],"class_list":["post-128878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-bamberg-county","tag-coroners-office","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-denmark-police-department","tag-south-carolina-law-enforcement-division","tag-the-south-carolina-law-enforcement-division"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116915499528796843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}