Officials Confirm Clements Death as Homicide

ATHENS (Staff/AP) – The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office has received an official cause of death concerning Ben Gill Clements, the son of former Gov. Bill Clements. According to KETK, officials with the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas ruled Clements’s cause of death as a result of apparent gunshot wounds and the manner of death as homicide. Clements’s body was unearthed on Howard Granger’s property on County Road 4609 and later positively identified. Clements, a neighbor of Granger’s, was first reported missing last Thursday. When authorities on Friday went to search Granger’s ranch, officials say he began shooting at them and Granger was killed. Officials later found Clements’s body in a shallow grave on Granger’s property.