The Kansas City Police Department has begun a death investigation after a trucker found a body in the Missouri River Tuesday.
Officers were dispatched just after 1:30 p.m. to the northbound lanes of Interstate 435 after the trucker called about finding the body. The trucker told police he saw the body from a raised cab while he was riding in the passenger seat.
At the scene, officers saw the body on the riverbank near the I-435 bridge, according to an incident report…