R&I NV — The Monroe County coroner’s office has confirmed the identity of a man found floating dead in the Mississippi River on Friday. Police say the man attempted to swim across the river from downtown St. Louis. On Tuesday, St. Louis Metropolitan Police were dispatched to Bellerive Park on a report that two men were in the Mississippi and appeared to be in distress, one of which disappeared beneath the current and didn’t surface.
On Friday, the body of Caleb M. Moriarity, 36, was spotted by a fisherman near the eastern banks of the Mississippi in a rural part of Monroe County. Police say Moriarity was homeless, though he previously had resided in St. Louis and Indiana. “Positive identification was made using tattoos from a Facebook page and an acquaintance that observed Moriarity attempting to cross the Mississippi River from the area of Broadway Street in St. Louis city,” said Monroe County Coroner Bob Hill.
Investigators believe Moriarity drowned, but an official cause of death won’t be released pending the results of an autopsy performed Sunday and toxicology tests. According to a release, witnesses called police when they saw two men in the river and in apparent trouble.
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