Garfield County Coroner Rob Glassmire may need to use DNA or dental work to identify a man’ body found in the Colorado River west of Glenwood Springs.
Commercial rafters discovered the body near the town’s wastewater treatment plant Saturday. The coroner believes the man was in the river for several days, although that estimation “isn’t an exact science,” he said.
Glassmire will try to get good fingerprints off the body, which will be submitted to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. If that doesn’t work, he’ll move on to DNA identification or dental work.
But even with all this information, authorities will need something to compare it to. “We don’t have any solid leads of missing persons or anything like that,” said the coroner.
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