RAYMOND – The Pacific County Sheriff’s Office has recovered a body from the Willapa River that is believed to be that of Ross A. Baun, a 31-year-old McCleary man missing since Jan. 5.
Just after noon on Monday county dispatchers received a call from a citizen who said he and his wife located the body while on a kayak outing on t he river. The caller said the body had been secured to one of the kayaks.
Deputies responded in the office’s marine patrol vessel to recover the body and help the kayakers. The general physical attributes, clothing descriptions and identifying tattoos provided to investigators at the time of the disappearance matched the recovered body, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Baun had last been observed alive on Jan. 5, about one half mile up river on the bank next to the river from where the body was recovered. The body was released to the Pacific County Coroner’s Office. The cause of death is still undetermined.
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