Dead Man's Property Missing

The situation surrounding the death of a Wilkes man continues to generate investigation on the part of sheriff deputies. Kelly Laws, who awoke last Friday to find her husband unresponsive in bed next to her, called deputies back to the couple's home yesterday. She said she'd left the house after things happened Friday, and returned to find several of her husband's items missing from the house. They include two wrist watches, a pair of Oakley sunglasses, and a Motorola flip phone, altogether valued at over 3-thousand dollars. She believes some of her husband's family may have come and gotten the items using a key, as there is no sign of forced entry. The official cause of death for her husband has not been determined, as deputies are waiting on lab results from an autopsy.