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The body of a Baton Rouge man has been found in Tangipahoa parish, officials say. The body was rolled in tarp found on the side of a road.

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office has identified the man whose body was found on the side of Highway 51 Sunday morning. TPSO says the victim is William Nicholas Abraham, 69, of Baton Rouge. Preliminary investigation says his manner of death is blunt force trauma and cause of death is a homicide.

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office is looking for a person of interest after a body was found in a tarp along a highway.

The vehicle, a black Lincoln MKX, belonged to William Abraham, police said. Abraham, 69, of Baton Rouge, was found dead of blunt force trauma, rolled in tarp on the side of La. 51 between Fluker and the village of Tangipahoa, shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday.

A well-known Baton Rouge mental health therapist was found murdered and wrapped in a tarp alongside a roadway in Tangipahoa Parish, investigators said.Detectives say 69-year-old Dr. William Nicholas Abraham of Baton Rouge died in a “violent attack” with blunt force trauma to his head,

Baton Rouge therapist’s body found wrapped in a tarp and dumped in a ditch over the weekend. The agency said its detectives believe the pictured individual captured by a store surveillance camera is the last person known to have been driving the vehicle belonging to the 69-year-old homicide victim,