Missing California radio broadcaster found dead in Paducah, Kentucky
The body of Ray Taliaferro, an award-winning California radio broadcaster who was missing for nearly a month, was found this weekend in Paducah.
Missing California radio broadcaster found dead in Paducah, Kentucky The body of Ray Taliaferro, an award-winning California radio broadcaster who was missing for nearly a month, was found this weekend in Paducah. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/12/05/california-broadcaster-ray-taliaferro-found-dead-kentucky/2212788002/
Thomas Novelly, Louisville Courier Journal Published 10:51 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2018
Ray Taliaferro, 79, was last seen in Kentucky.(Photo: Massac County Sheriff)
The body of Ray Taliaferro, an award-winning California radio broadcaster who was missing for nearly a month, was found this weekend in Western Kentucky.
Taliaferro, 79, was found Sunday by two teenagers in a wooded area off South 25th Street and Brooks Stadium Drive in Paducah, local police said.
Preliminary autopsy results indicate there was no foul play in his death and that exposure to the elements may have been a factor in his death, Paducah police said.
The legendary journalist was last seen in mid-November talking with the manager at the Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant in Paducah, according to the sheriff's department in Massac County, Illinois. Massac County is located just across the Ohio River from Paducah, roughly 15 miles away.
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Taliaferro and his wife, Charlotte Crawford, were in Illinois because they had inherited a home in nearby Brookport, according to Mercury News. They were preparing to leave the home in a rental car together when Taliaferro took off.
Taliaferro was an award-winning on-air radio host for KGO News Talk 810 in the San Francisco area from 1977 until 2011. He was given the National Association of Black Journalists' Ida B. Wells Award in 2011.
He also served as president of the San Francisco chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, according to the radio station's biography.
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