Officials on Friday said the woman whose body was found in a car that was discovered this week in a Rochester company's holding pond had been reported missing more than 1 1⁄2 years ago.
Woman whose body was found in car in Rochester holding pond had been missing since October 2021
The vehicle appeared to be visible because of low water levels, according to police.
June 30, 2023 at 8:49PM
Employees at Ready Mix Concrete in the 4000 block of NW. 19th Street noticed a car in the retention pond on Wednesday, police said.
Jodi Boeckermann, 64, of Rochester, has been identified as the woman in the car, said police spokeswoman Amanda Grayson. An identification card belonging to Boeckermann was in the car as well, Grayson said.
Boeckermann was reported missing on Nov. 9, 2021, after she left her home on Oct. 15, 2021, with "her direction of travel unknown," according to a missing person alert from the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
The car, a Pontiac Grand Am, appeared to have "been there awhile and became visible because of the dry conditions and low water level," read a police statement from earlier this week.
Police said they are working with the Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner's Office to determine Boeckermann's cause of death.
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