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Woman's Body Found Under Town Bridge in Canton


Update 2:15 pm
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has released the following:

DEEP Environmental Conservation (EnCon) Police this morning recovered the body of a woman from the waters of the Farmington River.

Authorities were unable to identify the body at the scene and it will be transported to the chief Medical Examiners Office for a positive identification.

The body was discovered in the waters of the river about three miles downstream from where 33-year old Rachel Greene of New Hartford was reported missing early last Saturday morning. The site was near the bridge on Town Bridge Road on the Canton/New Hartford line about one mile upstream from the Collinsville Dam.

A woman walking her dog reported seeing the body to Canton Police at around 9:30 this morning. The town of Canton police and Volunteer Fire and EMS departments and two EnCon officers who were searching nearby responded immediately, joined by State Police and a search and rescue team from UConn.

Ms. Greene had been reported missing after coming out of a raft while on the river in the early morning hours last Saturday. A man in the raft with her and two other men in a second raft with them all made it out of the water safely.

The two rafts reportedly entered the water at approximately 2:30 am on Route 44, one mile west of Satan's Kingdom.

EnCon Police have led an extensive search for Ms. Greene all week long.


Update 2 pm
The body found in the Farmington River Saturday morning has now been removed.

Patch is looking to get further details.


Updated 12:19 p.m. Saturday

A body has been found in the Farmington River under Town Bridge in Canton, police chief Christopher Arciero said Saturday morning.

At noon the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, state police, Canton police, town of Canton Volunteer Fire and EMS Department and the ME's office were all on scene but the body had not yet been removed from the river.

"A witness called Canton police to report a body," Arciero said earlier in the day, adding that it will have to be determined whether or not it is connected to the disappearance of Rachel Greene from the river in New Hartford in June 15.

According to an earlier press release from DEEP, officials were told that four parties in two rafts entered the river around 2:30 a.m. The raft with Greene, 33, of New Hartford and another male hit a rock, capsized and she was thrown into the water, according to the report, DEEP officials said.

Two males in a second raft also got to shore safely, the participants reported.

Greene's family has also set up a fund for the search/memorial effort. See more here.



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