Body Found in River Believed to Be Scientist’s
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A body carrying the identification of a missing Harvard University scientist was found in the Mississippi River, about 300 miles south of where the man was last seen.
Police said a positive identification will be made after the body, discovered near a hydroelectric plant in Vidalia, is returned to Memphis for an autopsy.
A wallet on the body carried the name of Don C. Wiley, a molecular biologist whose abandoned rental car was found Nov. 16 on a Mississippi River bridge in Memphis. The keys were in the ignition and the tank full of gas.
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