Authorities identify body found in Mississippi River near Ste. Genevieve
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (KBSI) – Authorities identified the body found in the Mississippi River on May 1.
Ste. Genevieve Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Jason Schott says Darris C. Moore, 23, of St. Louis was found in the river.
Chief Deputy Schott says they do not know how he died, but do not suspect foul play. They are waiting on autopsy and toxicology reports.
The Ste. Genvevieve County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Tower Rock Stone on May 1 around 1:38 p.m.
Employees located a body floating in the Mississippi River.
Workers took the body to the area of the Little Rock Landing in Ste. Genevieve.
Sheriff’s deputies and the county coroner responded to the Landing where they took possession of the body.
Teeth are all natural and the subject has several tattoos.
His right middle finger had a heart shaped tattoo which was hidden under a silver ring.
He had a lined braid of stars with the name “Cee Cee ” on the left hand/wrist area.
On his right-hand wrist had a tattoo labeled as “love Melinda” and on his left shoulder had a tattoo of “STL ” and a cardinal on a baseball bat.
The male subject was wearing several layers of clothing.
He had on a pair of red jogging pants over a pair of black jogging pants, a black “Friday the 13th” t-shirt with a white-grey hooded sweatshirt that stated, “Faith over Fear” on the chest and “Faith” down both sleeves.
He had on one crew sock and one ankle sock with fleece lined suede house shoes/boots.
He was also wearing a women’s bra.
He had on a “dog tag” style chain around his neck without the dog tags and a silver ring on his right middle finger.
He is believed to have been in the water for one to two weeks.
