GBI finds car rented by missing Navy Sailor sunken in river near where his body was found

Earlier this month, D evin Jeter, a U.S. Navy Sailor from DeKalb County, was reported missing when he never arrived in Jacksonville, Florida where he was deployed.

Last week, a fisherman in Telfair County found 25-year-old Jeter’s body in the Ocmulgee River . But the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the Jeep Compass he rented to get to Jacksonville was nowhere to be found.

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The GBI says the Georgia State Patrol Dive Team found the missing Jeep sunken in the Ocmulgee River at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday morning near where Jeter’s body was found.

Investigators say there was no obvious damage to the Jeep.

Telfair County is about three hours from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where Jeter was last seen.

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