Questions Abound in Recovered-Body Investigation

The body recovered by Windsor police in the Connecticut River May 4 sustained such decomposition, Capt. Tom LePore says, there's no information pointing the department's investigation in one way or the other.

According to LePore, where the investigation goes depends on the results of an autopsy, which is pending or happening today.

Windsor police arrived on the banks of the Connecticut River Saturday around 1 p.m., having received a call from a fisherman who reported seeing the body in the water, LePore said.

The body, said LePore, was caught on a fallen tree and exposed by the river's low level, Saturday.

According to LePore, the body's decomposition has made it difficult to determine the race and other characteristics of the individual. As such, no identification has been made. Such information depends on the results of the autopsy, which is being conducted at the medical examiner's office in Farmington, said LePore.

According to LePore, there is also a lack of information that would help authorities determine whether or not foul play was involved.

"It's too early to make that determination," he said.

LePore did say, however, the position in which the body was found make it a probability that it floated from upstream.

According to LePore, it's possible, yet unlikely, the individual entered the river where they were found.