Missing Maryland Man's Body Found Stuffed in Toolbox

PRINCE FREDERICK, MD — A Maryland man whose body was found bound and stuffed inside a toolbox floating in a Kentucky creek has been identified as Tromain Jerome Mackall, 29.

A Kentucky coroner identified Mackall, who had moved to the area from Prince Frederick in February, as the murder victim. Hudson said Mackall died from multi-modal asphyxiation, meaning he was meaning Mackall was strangled or suffocated by more than one means simultaneously, reports WUSA.

Kentucky State Police say Mackall’s body was found Aug. 2 in the container that was floating in Spring Fork Creek, a tributary of Rough River, reports FOX DC. The toolbox was described as one similar to the type used in the bed of pickup trucks.

Mackall was reported missing on July 26.

He had moved to the Louisville, KY, area in February to live with Simone Dewitt, whom he had met ten years earlier.

“He was my soulmate. He was the love of my life,” DeWitt told WUSA. “We were going to get married this month.”

But Mackall’s family members say DeWitt physically abused Mackall, including on the night he disappeared. They want DeWitt to be treated as a suspect in Mackall’s death.