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accadacca
04-02-2013, 09:21 AM
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The mystery of the disappearance of a young woman who was a champion fiddler while on a Grand Canyon rafting trip in January is, sadly, solved.

A National Park Service press release says the body of Kaitlin Kenney, last seen on the night of Jan.11 at a Colorado River camp, has been recovered. It says that on March 21, people on a private river trip "reported finding a woman's body in the river at about river mile 165."

The body was taken by helicopter to a medical examiner and later confirmed to be that of Colorado resident Kaitlin Anne Kenney, 21, of Englewood.

Kenney was on a rafting trip with friends when she disappeared during the night.

There are key questions that remain to be answered. Did she fall into the freezing river while disoriented at night during a call of nature, as her mother has speculated? The Park Service release did not shed any light on cause of death. It says it is continuing its investigation in partnership with the Coconino County Medical Examiner's Office.

canyoncaver
04-02-2013, 03:56 PM
Wow, she was beautiful.

Sombeech
04-03-2013, 08:30 PM
No doubt she was intoxicated and somehow fell into the river and drowned at night. This happens a lot when rafters are sleeping on their raft and roll off, or are stumbling on or off their raft.

River trips get pretty crazy.