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Photo: Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office/ Facebook In the following days, searchers were able to identify an area in the debris flow where they believed her vehicle came to rest upside down, and used heavy machinery like front loaders and dump trucks to carefully remove the debris amid the wet and unstable mud. A private contractor then helped deputies pinpoint the car’s exact location with a high-powered metal detector, and they eventually dug a path using front loaders....

Photo: Mat Hayward/Getty Police in Norman, Okla., are investigating the death of a teenager whose decomposed body was found in a basement near the University of Oklahoma campus. Margarita “Maggie” Sandoval was 19 years old when she vanished in 2018, and some family members wondered what had happened to her. “We knew something was wrong when she stopped calling my mom,” Taylor Hearon, Sandoval’s sister, toldLocal News 9. For three years, no one knew what had become of Sandoval....

The body ofShanann Watts, thepregnant mother-of-twowhose husband is accused of killing her, has been found, authorities said Thursday. “We can disclose that her body has been located,” Frederick Police Department spokesman Sgt. Ian Albert said during a Thursday press conference. Shanann Watts, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and her children Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4, went missing on Monday from their Colorado home. Colorado Bureau of Investigation director John Camper said at the press conference, “We have strong reason to believe that we know where the bodies of the children are and recovery efforts are in process on that....

Photo: Rockingham County NC Sheriff’s Office A final victim fromJune’s deadly tubing accidentin North Carolina has been recovered from the Dan River and identified. She was 24-weeks pregnant, herbrother-in-law Shane Young told ABC-7. Teresa is the fifth person to be confirmed dead after the incident, which took place back on June 18 whena group of nine people who were all relatedtook a set of connected inflatable tubes out to float down the river — a “popular pastime” in the county, according to officials....

Photo: Hastings Soccer/Twitter The body of a soccer star who once played for a U.S. college has been found days after he was swept into the ocean,according to multiple outlets in Australia. Eric Birighitti — who played for Football West’s Perth Soccer Club, according toWestern Australia Today— was recoved Tuesday, five days after he was swept off rocks on Jan. 2 at Twilight Beach in Western Australia, near Perth. Police toldThe Australianthat Birighitti was with friends at the beach at the time of the incident, and that they attempted to help him but couldn’t rescue the athlete....

Photo: Waukegan Police Department The body of 21-year-old Seamus Gray was found Wednesday evening near Waukegan Harbor in Lake Michigan, according to a press release from the Waukegan Police Department (WPD). A group of workers with the Commonwealth Edison Company spotted the body while doing routine work in the area, per the department. The Lake County Coroner’s Office has officially identified the victim as Gray, who appears to have drowned, the WPD said....

Photo: INDIANA STATE POLICE Thebody of an unidentified boyfound in rural Washington County, Indiana was discovered inside a Las Vegas-themed suitcase, according to authorities. On Tuesday, Indiana State Police announced that the body was located “inside a closed hard case suitcase” ina press releasethat included a photo of the luggage which shows the Las Vegas welcome sign. “The suitcase has a distinctive Las Vegas design on its front and back,” Sgt....

Photo: getty The body of a boy was found in Southern Indiana this weekend — and police are hoping members of the public can help identify him. “Right now that is the No. 1 point of this investigation, to find out who this child is,” Sgt. Carey Huls of the Indiana State Police said during apress conferenceon Monday. “At this point, we still do not have that information… and he deserves to be heard....

Officials in Washington have located a body that matches the description of a local mountain climber who went missing on Mount Rainier while attempting a milestone climb. Eddy was last seen “heading uphill at Cathedral Gap” around 8:30 p.m. local time on May 30, the agency said. After six days of searching, a body matching Eddy’s description was recovered at about 11,500-feet on the Ingraham Direct climbing route, park officials said....

Photo: iron county sheriffs office/ facebookA 30-year-oldsurgeondied afterfalling downan embankment while hiking in Gurney, Wisconsin, according to officials.The body of Kelsey Musgrove, a cardiothoracic surgery fellow at the University of Wisconsin, was found “partially buried in a steep clay bank along the river’s edge” on Sunday, according toa press releasefrom Iron County Sheriff Paul Samardich.“It appears that while hiking alone, she had ventured off the trail/observation area at the Potato River Falls in an attempt to get closer to the river,” Samardich said....

Photo:Cochise County Sheriff’s Office (2) Cochise County Sheriff’s Office (2) An Ohio woman’s adult son and the son’s teenage girlfriend have beencharged in connection with her brutal April killingafter being apprehended in Mexico, but the victim’s body still hasn’t been found. On May 5, officers with the Sylvania Township Police Department searched for Nicole Jones, 53, at her condo on Timbers Edge Boulevard in Sylvania Township, near Toledo, but were unable to find her, the department said in a statement....

Photo: Anaheim Police Department/ Twitter Police have identified a body that was found last week in a U-Haul truck. On Wednesday, employees of the vehicle rental company in Fullerton, California, discovered the body while clearing out and doing inventory in one of the trucks, Anaheim Police Department spokesperson Shane Carringer told PEOPLE. The truck was not returned to U-Haul on time and was towed back to the storage facility with property still inside it, said Carringer....

The site where the woman’s body was discovered.Photo: Pierce Co Sheriff/ twitter A day at a Washington lake took a heartbreaking turn for one family after authorities say a grandmother went missing while swimming with her grandson. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Officeconfirmed the fatal incident on Twitter, noting that it occurred on Friday at Carney Lake in their Penninsula Detachment. Deputies and firefighters were called to the scene after receiving a report about a 52-year-old woman who went under the water while swimming with her grandson, according to their tweet....