The body of missing woman Nicole Richardson was found las night in the Clyde River near Vermont Route 105 in the village of West Charleston.

In the evening hours of Tuesday, June 30, while troopers were conducting follow-up investigation related to the disappearance of Nicole Richardson, troopers were dispatched to a report of a woman in distress in the Clyde River near Vermont Route 105 in the village of West Charleston.

A short time later, a bystander and a Vermont game warden located the woman a short distance downriver. She was unresponsive when she was brought to shore. The woman was identified as Nicole Richardson. She was transported by ambulance to North Country Hospital in Newport, where she was pronounced deceased.

Subsequent investigation has revealed the death is not suspicious and is believed to be the result of an accidental drowning. Independent witness statements indicate Richardson voluntarily went into the river and was quickly overpowered by the swift current.

Her body will be brought to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of her death.

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by Daniel Duric, for the Newport Dispatch

BROWNINGTON — Vermont State Police are asking for the public’s help locating a 39-year-old Troy woman who has been missing since Friday evening.

Nicole Richardson was last seen at about 8 p.m. Friday at a residence on Pepin Road in Brownington, according to the Derby barracks.

She was expected to travel from Pepin Road through Orleans to Loop Road in Troy but never arrived and has not been in contact with her family.

Richardson was last seen wearing a black and white dress.

She was driving a maroon 2008 Hyundai Accent sedan with Vermont registration KVW103.

Anyone who has seen Richardson or has information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Vermont State Police Derby barracks at 802-334-8881, option 3.