RedactedNarrative: The call came in to Haleyville Police dispatch at 1529 on 07/10/2017. I received the call at 1534 on the same date and arrived on the scene at 1613. The call came in as a runaway boat and as I crossed the County Road 79 bridge I observed an unoccupied aluminum flat bottom boat turning hard counter-clockwise circles at the location shown on the diagram. I launched my patrol boat and approached the vessel. I noticed the vessels motor was surging, so I waited around two minutes. The vessel came to a stop and I then secured it to my tow line. I towed the vessel to the Twin Forks boat ramp, where a black truck sat on the ramp with a boat trailer in the water. I ran the vehicle''s tag and it came back registered to the owner of the vessel. With assistance from the Bear Creek Fire Department we loaded the vessel on the trailer and pulled it out of the water. 
   
  Three witnesses saw the boat go north under the bridge and out of sight. There were also three witnesses in another boat that came around a curve and saw the accident vessel turning in circles with no one on board. I searched both banks of the river north of the bridge and ran side scan and down scan sonar in an attempt to locate the operator. Haleyville Rescue arrived with their boats and assisted with running sonar. Silt made it difficult to obtain clear images on my sonar. Rescue units continued searching until 11:00 p.m. and then suspended operations until the next morning. 
   
  At 10:00 a.m. on the next date units with ALEA Marine Patrol, Marion County, Franklin County, Colbert County EMA, Bear Creek Police and Volunteer Fire Department, Franklin County Dive Team, Haley Rescue/Dive Team, Winfield Fire/Dive team and SARTEC K-9 Search K-9 with 4 K-9''s resumed searching for the missing operator. Despite obtaining possible sonar images during the day, the operator was not located on that date. Various agencies continued search operations on a daily basis until the operator''s body was recovered on the morning of July 20th, 2017 at approximately 6:16 a.m. 
   
  Body was positively identified by the Marion County Coroner. An autopsy was ordered and a preliminary cause of death report is attached to this report.  It is assumed the person fell overboard and then was struck by the propeller/boat.  The person died of trauma.