UNSOLVED MO - Body in a Barrel near Gasconade River Boat Ramp, 12 Apr 2019

[Gardener1850]

GASCONADE COUNTY, MO – The Gasconade County Sheriff’s Office is reporting a body found near the Gasconade River. Investigators from the sheriff’s office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol Marine Division pulled the barrel from the boat ramp and determined that it was suspicious in nature on Friday, April 12th. The barrel was taken to the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office in Columbia, where human remains were found in the barrel Monday.
Human remains found in Gasconade County barrel

 

[Gardener1850]

The Gasconade County Sheriff's Office said the remains were discovered near a river access point Friday afternoon.
Troopers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol helped deputies recover the plastic barrel from the river after it got stuck on the side of a boat ramp in Gasconade, Missouri.
Human remains found inside barrel on Gasconade River

Map: Google Maps

 

[doodles1211]

Google Maps

The barrel may have traveled some distance.

 

[Gardener1850]

Sheriff's Office post: Gasconade County Sheriff's Office

 

[Gardener1850]

Sheriff's Office post: Gasconade County Sheriff's Office

Family members of Desirea Ferris are posting on the SO post. Her thread is here: MO - MO - Desirea Ferris, 18, Liberty, 1 May 2017

 

[Armalita]

Makes me think of bear brook murders

 

[Gardener1850]

GASCONADE, Mo. — Police said the human remains found in a plastic barrel lodged against a boat ramp last week are male, but they still don't know who he is.
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Police said Friday that the official report from the medical examiner isn't complete, but the body has been determined to be an adult man.

The investigation into the man's identity and his cause of death are ongoing.

Police trying to identify remains of man found in barrel in Gasconade Co

 

[Melt71]

I couldn't see any MSM on an identity, but the remains are not listed among MO unidentified www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/CJ51/SearchUnidentified