Two bodies turn up in Willamette River in recent days, neither belong to missing kayaker

Authorities have recovered a second body from the Willamette River since a kayaker plunged over Willamette Falls Saturday night, April 12. As neither body belonged to the missing 20-year-old kayaker, the search for him continues.

Around 4 p.m. on Sunday, emergency responders recovered a body from the river near Swan Island.

“When the body was recovered on Sunday, there were obvious physical indicators that it had been in the water for quite some time and couldn’t have been the kayaker who had just gone missing the night before,” Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Deputy John Plock said…

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