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by Daniel Duric, for the Newport Dispatch
HARTFORD, VT — Police have recovered the body of a woman who jumped from the Quechee Gorge Bridge earlier this month.
Hartford Police received a call at 11:37 a.m. on April 28 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reporting a body in the water south of the Quechee Gorge Bridge.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers remained with the body until relieved by Hartford Police.
The Hartford Fire Department and a medicolegal death investigator from the Vermont Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office utilized a fire boat to recover the body.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed the body recovered was that of the woman who jumped from the Quechee Gorge Bridge on April 13.
The manner of death was confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as suicide.
The victim’s name is being withheld.
The Hartford Police Department was assisted by the Hartford Fire Department, Hanover Fire Department, Lebanon Fire Department, Lebanon Police Department, Vermont State Police, Vermont Urban Search and Rescue, Customs and Border Protection Air Unit, Rescue Inc/Southern Vermont Technical Rescue and the Army Corps of Engineers/North Hartland Dam.
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available by calling or texting 988, or chatting via 988lifeline.org to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
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Categories: Life&Death
Even with the cage like screening someone recently jumped? I hope no older bodies are left down there. I suspect I’m not alone in knowing someone who has jumped into that lovely gorge. Sadly it casts a shadow on the beauty of the setting.
Knowing Quechee Gorge over the years, it has been known people commit suicide. If people don’t walk in the stream below, hardly anyone would be found. The article isn’t that mind blowing. The Townshend dam (between w. Townshend and Townshend, Route 30 has another bridge that some have jumped. It’s all stone ledge, People do get depressed by some means or on drugs. Not surprising to find the deceased, especially in these times. Quechee is a narrow gorge and bout 150- 200 feet deep. There’s a lot of traffic, surprised no one sees them and report it. Not much you can do. Too bad, talking may change their minds, if the opportunity exists.
On a different true Vermont episode. I knew Lawrence Baird of West Burke. Larry was one of those Barnstormers in the 20’s, wing walkers and all. He didn’t do that I don’t believe. Anyhow, he was flying with others and they played “follow the leader”. Larry got in the Quechee area and was a leader. He flew under the Quechee bridge and no one followed. As a young kid about 5 in Newark VT, a plane went over and it was doing loops after loops. It had to be Larry seeing us below and put on a show. Larry would buzz people that worked on their barn roofs.
Larry was in Florida giving rides to tourists. He would fly over the ocean waves up and down as the waves moved toward shore. He had a passenger and did this. When he landed the guy wanted Larry’s license, the guy was a FAA inspector. I’ve had my own plane and don’t DARE to do any of this. I’m what you call “a Fair Weather Pilot”.
Larry also built his own saw mill, it was made of odd and ends engine, moveable platform etc from scratch. The locals had timber milled and I had also. Larry was true Vermonter and loved life. He portrays what VT life was, and sorely missed. I believe
this is the opposite of those disenfranchised with life. Give it a chance, there are alternatives. The cemeteries are full of beautiful people that made Vermont. I’ve passed my genes on.
I’ve flown gliders at Warren, if you get a chance to hop on a plane and see the earth in a different perspective, do so, if they exist.
Yes, Lawrence Baird was a Vermont treasure. I knew him most of my life and always looked forward to speaking with him.
Knees please, as suicide has so many tentacles, like divorce.
Yeah, I don’t get it.
The bridge is ugly with that fence.
It’s also hard to understand the enormous turnout to get one body recovered.
They must love these events as a training exercise.
“All hands turn to”
Our tax dollars is hard at work.
Seemed to be down there a long time before recovery.