Overton County, TN (WOKI) A joint investigation is underway after a body is found Thursday in a burning refrigerator on the side of a road in Middle Tennessee.

Officials with the Overton County Sheriff’s Office say deputies responded to a report of a refrigerator on fire on the side of Sunk Cane Road in the early morning hours of Thursday.

Upon arrival, deputies found a body in the burning refrigerator.

Detectives and agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also responded to the scene.

The body has been sent to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, and the TBI has collected the refrigerator and taken it to its Nashville lab.

Anyone with information is asked to please call the TBI or the OCSO.