BREAKING: Body Found in Coshocton Co. ID’d as Missing Roseville Man

COSHOCTON, Ohio — A body found in a rural Coshocton County appears to be that of a man missing from Roseville, but last seen alive in Knox County.

WHIZ News reported around the time Ernest Baker went missing, in September, that he had been hunting ginseng.

The Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office tells WHIZ News, in a press release, that they received a tip through a 9-1-1 transfer from Licking County, that a man had found a decomposed body on his property located in Perry Township.

Deputies were sent to the scene and the Coshocton County Coroner was called in to help with the investigation.

The Walhonding Valley Fire District & Coshocton County EMS also assisted on the scene.

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Jarrod Allen

Zanesville knew Jarrod before Jarrod knew Zanesville. He was born here & grew up just outside New Lexington.

Jarrod comes to WHIZ after serving as the Statehouse correspondent for 700 WLW in Cincinnati, where he reported on statewide politics from Broad & High for four years, including the 2016 election. Jarrod has reported from the floor of the Ohio House of Representatives & Ohio Senate during the administration of Gov. John Kasich, the inauguration of Gov. Mike DeWine, the Ohio Democratic & Republican Parties and numerous state agencies & associations. He’s an active member of the Ohio Legislative Correspondents’ Association & and Ohio Radio & Television Correspondents’ Association. He can sometimes be found in the Statehouse Radio & TV Newsroom keeping up with politics & getting video to put on TV here in Zanesville.

Jarrod has been in broadcast journalism for about twenty-five years, reporting for stations in Ohio and, during eight years in Texas, in Houston, Dallas & Austin where he won an Associated Press award for his work on the Bastrop Complex Wildfire while at KLBJ.

He has a degree in Broadcast Engineering & Production from Hocking College, and in Applied Communication from Ohio University.

Jarrod calls Perry County home, where he enjoys working with his dad’s horse, fixing up the family farm & working with digital printing as a hobby.

He returns to WHIZ as a TV, radio & web journalist having worked for George Hiotis & the Littick family in 2000 & 2001.

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