ST. LOUIS (AP) - Authorities have identified the woman whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River earlier this week.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (https://bit.ly/2dQVFKS ) reports that the woman was 22-year-old Mansi Flaherty of the House Springs area, south of St. Louis.
An autopsy found no evidence of a homicide but authorities have not released a cause of death and the investigation continues.
The U.S. Coast Guard was contacted Tuesday afternoon about a body in the river near the Poplar Street Bridge. Firefighters pulled the body from the water.
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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, https://www.stltoday.com
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