Detectives are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Tuesday night in East Lyme near I-95, the police chief said Wednesday.
A passerby reported finding the man at the side of West Society Road about 10:30 p.m., Chief Michael Finkelstein said. The man was near the off ramp for southbound traffic at Exit 73.
Finkelstein said investigators don’t know the man’s name. He also didn’t know if there were signs of trauma on the body or if the death was a homicide. Staff at the state medical examiner’s office will help make those determinations, he said during an early-morning phone interview.