LEBANON — Police have released the cause of death for a 37-year-old New Jersey man who was found dead near the Lebanon Municipal Airport in mid-January.
Corey Wilson, of Belleville, N.J., died of hypothermia “with a contributory cause of acute methamphetamine intoxication,” according to a Lebanon police news release issued on Tuesday afternoon.
His death was determined to be accidental, the release says.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on Wilson’s body on Jan. 17 and issued its final report last week.
A snowmobiler riding on a trail near Poverty Lane and the Lebanon Municipal Airport on Jan. 13 found Wilson’s body in the woods off the south side of the airport runway.
Wilson’s family members said they were surprised to learn of his death in January. His sisters, Najaah and Kami Wilson, said on Tuesday that they are even more surprised to learn of the cause. They said the family believes there is more to the story and that someone may have harmed Corey Wilson. They have reached out to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office to talk about the case.
Corey Wilson doesn’t have any ties to the area and they aren’t sure why he was in the Upper Valley.
He wasn’t a drug user and didn’t have a known history of mental illness, they said. He did have sickle cell anemia, a disease that affects the production of red blood cells, preventing adequate oxygen from traveling throughout the body, which can worsen in cold temperatures.
Wilson, a social worker, operated Sphinx Life Coaching in Belleville, according to a LinkedIn profile. He held a master’s degree in social work from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in the same field from Rutgers University.
Wilson was a singer; as a musician he went by the name of “Ty.”
Posted at 1:35 p.m. Tuesday, updated at 3:15 p.m.