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AMERICAN FORK Searchers located a body Tuesday near the area where teams were looking for a hiker missing since Sunday.
According to a tweet from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office sent about 1:45 p.m., a Department of Public Safety helicopter “located a body in the area where the search has been ongoing for Bobby Healey near the mouth of American Fork Canyon. Positive ID will be confirmed later.”
Robert “Bobby” Healey, 28, of Saratoga Springs, was reported missing Sunday. His car was found by authorities near American Fork Canyon. Searchers also believed he was in the area based on pinging his cell phone, according to the sheriff’s office.
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AMERICAN FORK Authorities on Wednesday identified a body located in American Fork Canyon as an overdue hiker who was last seen on Sunday.
The body of Robert Bobby Healey, 28, was located Tuesday morning after an airplane pilot spotted footprints in the snow in the search area near where Healey s car was found, according to a Utah County Sheriff s Office press release. Utah Department of Public Safety crews searched the area where the footprints were seen and located the victim at an elevation of around 7,200 feet below a rocky cliff.
The release stated that Healey s body showed significant trauma consistent with falling while climbing somewhere near the top of the cliff. The body was hoisted off the mountain and transported to the state medical examiner s office for identification, Cannon said.