According to authorities, an Iowa man who disappeared in January has been discovered in an Arkansas lake, nearly 600 miles from where he went missing.
According to a news release from the Winterset Police Department on August 6th, the Howard County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas received a report on August 4th about a vehicle discovered submerged in Gillham Lake.
Police have reported that a dive team assisted in the recovery of a Ford Taurus containing the body of 25-year-old Joshua Graham-Caskey.
According to authorities, Graham-Caskey went missing on January 18 after he contacted a local Iowa sheriff’s office through a 911 call.
Through the utilization of license plate readers, financial transactions, and business surveillance footage, Iowa authorities successfully confirmed that he had traveled to the south through Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
According to the authorities, he was last spotted at a gas station in Mena, Arkansas, on January 19th.
Authorities reported that Graham-Caskey’s vehicle was discovered approximately 30 minutes away from Mena.
According to the sheriff’s office, there is no indication of any wrongdoing.
It takes a journey of 590 miles to reach Gillham Lake from Winterset, Iowa.
The disappearance of Joshua Graham-Caskey garnered widespread attention, prompting the formation of a Facebook group with over 4,400 members dedicated to finding him, called “Help find Joshua Graham-Caskey.”
“The Vanished,” a true-crime podcast, featured him in one of their episodes.
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