RedactedNarrative: Incident information: 10-6-18
  At 12:47 pm the clayton county sheriff's office received a 911 call indicating that a boat was spinning in tight circles in the main channel north of the turkey river/cassville ferry landing. Cassville fire, guttenberg fire and Police, clayton county sheriff's office, and iowa dnr & wi dnr conservation officers were dispatch to the scene.
  
  The cassville fire department was first on scene and discovered that the vessel was spinning at a fast pace; the vessel was vacant. Cassville fire rammed the circling vessel and pulled the safety lanyard to stop the motor. The motor was running at full throttle. The vessel came to rest on the shore line north of cassville. Later the brother and sister to the victim were traveling south down the river and noticed the boat (ws 3338 ck) with cassville fire. They informed cassville fire that it belonged to their brother who had been fishing with them approximately 45 minutes before they left him at the mouth of the turkey river, (mississippi river mile 609.3). 
  
  According to the brother and sister, their brother victim was getting ready to head up the main channel behind them. It is presumed that the victim fell out of the vessel while operating, while not wearing a pfd or the safety lanyard as he fell out of the boat. Searches conducted throughout that afternoon and the following 12 days. Searches consisted of officials utilizing side scan sonar on their vessels. Sonar was also recorded and digitally charted by a volunteer search & rescue team, christian aid ministries. Gps locations were charted while focusing on images that resembled a body at the bottom of the river. 
  
  Coordinated search & dragging efforts were then carried out by the volunteer group, ia dnr conservation officers, and local fire departments. Multiple gps way points/images were searched without ever finding anything. Other types of search methods were also utilized. Island and sand bar searches, patrol searches, including a cadaver search by water. Inclement weather played a factor on many days throughout the attempted recovery process. River levels and current speeds were continuously increasing which played an important role on the search.
  
  At 3:09 p.m. on thursday, october 18th, the grant county communications center received a 9-1-1 call from a subject advising he had located a body in the mississippi river. The 9-1-1 caller had the gps location of +042.69161 - 090.94960. The location indicated that the body was found on the wisconsin side of the mississippi river. The manner in which body was discovered indicated to the Investigators that victim was attempting to put on his camo rain jacket at the time of the incident. It is presumes that victim fell out of the vessel as he was attempting to put on his jacket while heading up the main channel in his
  V-bottom boat. Victim's body was found in a log jam near the sand cut. He was floating among logs and debris. His coat was partially on his arms and not all the way over his head. 
  
  Autopsy: 10-20-2018
  An autopsy was performed on sunday october 20th in ankeny iowa at the state medical laboratory by the director of forensics. Preliminary autopsy findings indicate the cause of death was determined to be from drowning. The results indicated that no trauma or acute medical issues where a cause or had contributed to death.
  
  His manner of death will be listed as an accident. Toxicology results will take about 4 weeks to get back due to decomposition. The autopsy positively identified the decedent via dental records
  