Johnny Cash's stepdaughter found dead

Two bodies, including that of a stepdaughter of late country music superstar Johnny Cash, were found in a bus parked off a highway, authorities in Tennessee said today.

Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ted Denny released few details, but he called the deaths ”suspicious”.

Officials said carbon monoxide from lanterns in the bus may have caused the deaths on Friday of Rosie Nix Adams and a man, whose identity was being withheld until his family was notified.

Adams, 45, and her husband, Philip Adams, had recently sold a home in Montgomery County and were preparing to travel in the bus, The Leaf-Chronicle newspaper reported. They had parked the vehicle behind a house on state Highway 12 for repairs.

Emergency Medical Service spokesman Mell James told the newspaper that workers found drug paraphernalia, including needles and pipes, on the bus near the bodies.

Rosie Adams was the daughter of June Carter Cash and Richard Nix. She was a songwriter and had pursued a performing career. The Leaf-Chronicle identified the man as a bluegrass fiddle player.

Adams’s mother died in May and her stepfather, Johnny Cash, died last month.