WAPELLO, Iowa -- Police have released the identity of the person found drowned in the Mississippi River about a mile south of Keithsburg, Ill. on Aug. 7 as Jason M. Fowler, 40, of Muscatine.
Fowler was swimming with friends on Aug. 5 without a flotation device when he disappeared.
A search for his body started on the 5th and was continued on both Aug. 6 and 7. Around 10:30 a.m. on the 7th, a boater contacted the Mercer County Sheriff's Office and reported they had found a body on the Iowa side of the river south of Keithsburg. The Wapello Fire Department responded to the scene, which was near Huron Island in Des Moines County.
Officials said an autopsy will be completed at the University of Iowa Decedent Care Center in Iowa City.