OWEN COUNTY, Ind. — Detectives are continuing to investigate how a Bloomington man wound up dead along the side of a country road near the Owen-Monroe county line.
The body of 23-year-old Malik Sims was found on Monday afternoon along Stephenson road after someone driving by saw it and called 911.
Currently sheriff’s deputies are only calling it a death investigation but his family believes he was murdered and his body discarded there.
Sims’ family said the first sign of trouble was when he didn’t return home on Sunday night and nobody could reach him. His roommate was able to ping his phone to that rural, gravel road.
