Cheryl Coker preliminary autopsy finding: No obvious signs of injury before death

NEAR XENIA, Greene County — There were no obvious signs of injuries to Cheryl Coker before her death, News Center 7 has learned.

That’s one of the chief findings that came during an autopsy performed at the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office and Crime Lab.

News Center 7′s Mike Campbell used an Ohio Public Records Law to look through the brief results of the preliminary autopsy performed on the Riverside mom, whose skeletal remains were discovered April 25 by a hiker in a Greene County field.

According to the coroner’s report, the autopsy was performed April 27 on unidentified human skeletal remains, later identified through dental records comparisons as 45-year-old Cheryl Coker. She was last seen October 2018.

Beside the exam finding no pre-mortem injuries, there were just a few confirmed findings from that forensic examination

One was that there was post-mortem animal activity, something Greene County Sheriff’s investigators suspected after finding bones scattered over a small area.

Another was that Coker was clothed. Examiners cataloged a Polo shirt, pants, a right tennis shoe and undergarments.

Officials for both the Greene County and the Montgomery County coroner’s offices declined to speculate about when a final autopsy report might be issued.

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