A man who went missing six months ago while he was driving a boat in Western Alaska was found dead Saturday in the same river where he was last seen, Alaska State Troopers said.
Troopers said in an online dispatch that someone found the man’s body floating in the Johnson River, 4 miles upstream from the Kuskokwim River, around 7:26 p.m. Saturday.
The person who found the body brought it back to Bethel, where troopers found a wallet and ID card suggesting it was the body of 21-year-old Wassillie Keene, troopers said. Keene went missing in late October.
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Posted by For The Missing: Pacific Northwest on Sunday, December 2, 2018
The last time Keene was seen alive, he was alone in his boat near where the Johnson River converges with the Kasigluk River — about halfway between the villages of Kasigluk and Nunapitchuk, according to troopers. His boat was later found without him, troopers said.
The State Medical Examiner Office will perform an autopsy on Keene’s body and positively identify it, troopers said.