Can you help ID woman recovered from Great Miami River in Miamisburg?

Five Rivers MetroParks rangers are asking for the public’s help to identify a woman whose body was recovered Wednesday from the Great Miami River near Rice Field in Miamisburg Wed.

The body is female and appears to be an adult, according to MetroParks. She was approximately 5 feet, 7 inches and 150 pounds with short, dark curly hair. She had a tattoo on the top of her left hand that said “Jay.”

Her age, ethnicity or race could not be determined due to the amount of time her body was in the water.

It’s not clear where the woman entered the river, but her body appeared to have been in the water for an extended time, Mark Hess, Five Rivers MetroParks chief of public safety, said earlier this week.

Investigators as of Wednesday were not able to determine whether there was any trauma to the body.

Anyone with information is urged to call Five Rivers MetroParks Ranger Division detective Jeremy Fritz at 937-277-4811 or the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office at 937-225-4156.

It was the second body located in the river in Montgomery County in a week.

Moraine police on Sunday responded to the Great Miami River between the Main Street overpass and West Carrollton low dam after a 911 caller spotted a man’s body.

Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Kent Harshbarger identified the man as 35-year-old Cole Estes of West Alexandria. Estes had been the subject of a multi-day search after he entered the river early Friday near the West Monument Avenue bridge in Dayton.

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