February 4, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
The identity of the man found dead Tuesday in a summer residence near Center Hill Lake has been confirmed.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that the state medical examiner’s office has made a positive identification of the man as 68-year-old Matthew Edwin Riihimaa. Neither the cause of death nor any other details have been released as the case remains under investigation.
The owner of the residence on Captain’s Point Road returned home Tuesday after being away since November and found the man’s badly decomposed body inside the premises.
Sheriff Ray issued the following statement on Wednesday:
“On Tuesday February 1, 2022, at 11:08 p.m., DeKalb Central Dispatch received a call from a person on Captains Point Road stating he found a dead body at his residence.
Officers arrived on the scene and discovered a badly decomposed body of a man in a detached sunroom of the residence. The homeowner stated he had not been to the residence since November 1st 2021.
Sheriff Ray said “It appeared the man had been living in the sunroom without the owner’s consent. The residence is a summer home and no one stays at the residence full time”.