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San Jose contractor found dead in Yuba River of gunshot wound
By Sandra Gonzales
Mercury News
Posted: 01/29/2009 07:19:57 PM PST
A 51-year-old contractor, who owned DK Associates General Contractors in San Jose, was found dead of a gunshot wound Wednesday in the Yuba River.
Authorities are calling the death suspicious.
The body of Dennis Knode was pulled out of the river after a state Department of Fish and Game biologist spotted it about a mile downstream of the Parks Bar Bridge in Marysville, according to the Yuba County Sheriffs Department.
An autopsy was performed Thursday as authorities searched the river for more evidence in the case.
San Jose police Sgt. Mike Sullivan said Yuba authorities contacted local police Wednesday night to ask them to make a welfare check at Knodes house after discovering his Hummer near the river.
Knodes wife told police that she thought the Hummer was at the San Jose Airport because Knode was supposed to be in Colorado and he had called her a few days earlier to say he was snowed in and going to be delayed, Sullivan said.
A business associate of Knodes told the Mercury News that he had met Knode on Tuesday afternoon in Redwood City. Knode paid him for work he had performed and was on his way across the bay to pay another subcontractor. The associate, who requested anonymity, said that Knode seemed a little down but was otherwise fine.
Knode has lived in the Bay Area for 37 years, according to the companys Web site.
*This is a trip, apparently there are a lot of questions surrounding some of the things he had been up to lately, like almost to the extent of him leading a double life. My gut tells me suidice, but regardless, its still really sad. My mom is freakin out over it.
RIP Denny.
San Jose contractor found dead in Yuba River of gunshot wound
By Sandra Gonzales
Mercury News
Posted: 01/29/2009 07:19:57 PM PST
A 51-year-old contractor, who owned DK Associates General Contractors in San Jose, was found dead of a gunshot wound Wednesday in the Yuba River.
Authorities are calling the death suspicious.
The body of Dennis Knode was pulled out of the river after a state Department of Fish and Game biologist spotted it about a mile downstream of the Parks Bar Bridge in Marysville, according to the Yuba County Sheriffs Department.
An autopsy was performed Thursday as authorities searched the river for more evidence in the case.
San Jose police Sgt. Mike Sullivan said Yuba authorities contacted local police Wednesday night to ask them to make a welfare check at Knodes house after discovering his Hummer near the river.
Knodes wife told police that she thought the Hummer was at the San Jose Airport because Knode was supposed to be in Colorado and he had called her a few days earlier to say he was snowed in and going to be delayed, Sullivan said.
A business associate of Knodes told the Mercury News that he had met Knode on Tuesday afternoon in Redwood City. Knode paid him for work he had performed and was on his way across the bay to pay another subcontractor. The associate, who requested anonymity, said that Knode seemed a little down but was otherwise fine.
Knode has lived in the Bay Area for 37 years, according to the companys Web site.
*This is a trip, apparently there are a lot of questions surrounding some of the things he had been up to lately, like almost to the extent of him leading a double life. My gut tells me suidice, but regardless, its still really sad. My mom is freakin out over it.
RIP Denny.
