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(WMC-TV) – The TBI has confirmed that Karen Swift's body was found in rural Dyer County Saturday afternoon.

Police blocked off a large portion of Harness Road near Highway 78 for most of Saturday afternoon and night. That is where they found a decomposed body near the home of missing Dyer County mother Karen Swift.

Swift, a mother of four, picked up her daughter from a Halloween party in late October and has not been seen since. Days after her disappearance, her car was found near her home. Her tires were split.

Investigators haven't released Swift's cause of death.

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Body found near Dyer County home of missing mom | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

DYERSBURG, TENN. — Police in West Tennessee say they have found a decomposed body near the home of a woman who has been missing for more than a month.

The remains were found Saturday in Dyer County near the home of Karen Swift, a mother of four who hasn’t been seen since late October, according to a WMC-TV report.

The body was sent to the Regional Forensic Center in Memphis for an autopsy and positive identification.

Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box told the station that the identity of the body would not be released before today.

— Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — The presidential nominating contests start in 21 days, and the Republican candidates are turning up the heat in Iowa and New Hampshire this week.

Front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are in New Hampshire Monday. Gingrich will debate Jon Huntsman one-on-one in Manchester. Ron Paul is holding town hall meetings on Tuesday in Peterborough and Wednesday in Derry.

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COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA -- With the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses just three weeks away, Republican activists in the state were viewing Saturday night's debate with renewed interest.  And at least some of them remain undecided after watching the candidates spar in their home state.

Myra Nixon, who supported Herman Cain until he dropped out earlier this month, was one of a group of a dozen or so Republican activists who gathered at a debate watch party at a home in McClelland, Iowa Saturday night to see what was billed as the most important debate so far of the GOP presidential primary season.

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