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Body recovered in Quechee Gorge

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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Body recovered in Quechee Gorge

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.