Anyone with information should call the coroner’s office at 937-225-4156.
Five Rivers MetroParks rangers responded to the river around 9:20 a.m. June 30 after kayakers found the body near Dayton Cincinnati Pike and Shephard Road.
Chief of Public Safety Mark Hess said the body was in some tree limbs and debris. There was significant decomposition, so crews could not immediately identify the gender or approximate age.
Aiden Clark, a middle school student from Miami Twp., was on a kayak trip with Taiters Kayak Solutions to fish on the Great Miami River.
He had been fishing for 20 to 30 minutes when he said his lure got caught.
When he retrieved his lure from an overhang, he saw a human femur.
Clark said his friend also checked it out and they immediately called 911 to report the body.
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