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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.
Crews remove body found in American Fork Canyon area
By: Brian Schnee , Spencer Burt , David Wells
Posted at 9:12 PM, Mar 15, 2021
and last updated 2021-03-16 19:32:46-04
AMERICAN FORK, Utah â Search and rescue crews discovered a man s body in the same area of American Fork Canyon where a hiker disappeared Sunday.
Robert Bobby Healey, 28, of Saratoga Springs, was last seen Sunday around noon, according to the Utah County Sheriff s Office, and his car was still at the mouth of the canyon Monday.
Healey was an avid hiker but he was not equipped for a longer outing, Sgt. Spencer Cannon said. His family says that heâs an avid hiker, takes very little equipment with him, a jacket maybe and jeans and hiking boots and a small backpack with some water and a little bit of food, and goes out for a few hours and then comes back,â said Cannon. âThis kind of thing is not uncommon for him to hike