FAIRFIELD, Maine — Authorities have called off the search for a Skowhegan woman presumed killed Saturday night when her car drove into a river in Fairfield.
Divers probed the murky water near a bridge until Sunday night and did not find the body of Cora Marley, 62.
Fairfield police Sgt. Matthew Bard says a warden’s service aircraft would fly over the area Monday, but it is unlikely divers will return to Martin Stream, tributary of the Kennebec River.
Bard told the Morning Sentinel that visibility is less than a foot and the stream is 18 to 20 feet deep.
Marley is the sister of former state Sen. Ken Gagnon.
Witnesses driving behind her said her vehicle was driving erratically and the brake lights didn’t come on before the car veered into the water.
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I think it is kind of sad and unfair that they will not continue trying to locate her body. It also seems unfair to whichever civilian will end up locating her, having to come across such a thing.
Yeah claim someone dead and not even know? I thought that they needed a body to presume dead? Poor poor woman and her family
I think that’s why it’s ‘presumed’, if you had a body I’d hope they’d know and not presume. Semantics either way, thoughts with the family.