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By Rick McCrabb, Staff Writer Updated 12:01 AM Wednesday, January 6, 2010

FRANKLIN — On New Year’s Eve, Daniel Joseph Foust backed up his pickup truck, loaded it with all his possessions, and drove to Tennessee.

Four days later, he was dead.

Foust, 51, who formerly lived in the Riverdale Apartments on North River Street in Franklin, reportedly died from hypothermia in one of four deaths in Tennessee that have been tied to bitterly cold weather.

A spokesman for Shelby County chief medical examiner Dr. Karen E. Chancellor said it appears hypothermia or hypothermia-related conditions caused the deaths of three men.

Foust’s body was found at 11:20 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4, in the 6100 block of Stoney Cove in Memphis near some railroad tracks, according to police.

Neighbors of Foust’s said, for some unknown reason, he moved out of the complex. On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Apt. C — where neighbors said Foust lived — was empty, and the lights were on.

Neighbors said they had no idea why Foust was in Tennessee or why his body was found near railroad tracks.

His cell phone number, listed on a Franklin police traffic report from 2006 when someone struck Foust’s blue Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck on East Sixth Street, was not in service.

Authorities said the other two men found dead in the Memphis area due to the frigid temperatures were an unidentified 55-year-old man whose body was found in Memorial Park in Memphis, and 68-year-old Leroy Jones, who was found dead inside his South Memphis home. Jones’ utilities were on, but he did not have the heat turned on, according to officials.

In Nashville, 81-year-old John Anderson, who police said had Alzheimer’s disease, froze to death in his yard. His body was found Monday morning after he wandered outside during the night.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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