Court of Special Appeals of Maryland November 26, 1997, 1809, Sept. Term, 1996 (Burral v. State)

SONNER, Judge.

In the early morning hours of February 27, 1989, a truck driver found the body of a young man in a ditch by the side of Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania. The first Pennsylvania State Trooper on the scene, Edward Vymazal, found no evidence of a car accident and determined that the man had died as a result of a homicide.