Body and car pulled from river in St. Paul
A car containing a body was pulled by construction workers from the Mississippi River in St. Paul on Friday morning.
Construction workers were dredging the river’s shore near Harriet Island on Thursday when they came across a sunken car with a body inside when the called the police.
The Pioneer Press reports that it took about a day to pull the car from the river, according to a police investigator.
The Star Tribune reports that spokesman Peter Panos said it’s too early to tell if a crime had occurred but given the decomposition of the body, it could have been in the water quite a while.
The Pioneer Press reports that the police department’s scan of 77 missing persons didn’t match this case.