A body found and pulled from the Rock River outside of Oregon on Tuesday morning has been identified as a missing 23-year-old Rockford man, Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said.
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OREGON — A body found and pulled from the Rock River outside of Oregon on Tuesday morning has been identified as a missing 23-year-old Rockford man, Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said.
At approximately 11 a.m., Tuesday the Ogle County Sheriff's Office received information from an individual that was searching for fossils along the river who said they had located a body in the water. Deputies, the Oregon Fire Protection District and the Ogle County Coroner's Office responded to the area and a body was located in the 4,300 block of North Illinois Route 2 (Oregon address).
On Wednesday, a forensic review of dental records was conducted by the Ogle County Coroner’s Office, and the individual was identified as Carter McGowan, who was reported missing from Rockford in January 2024.
"The individual was in the water and had clearly been there for some time," VanVickle said Tuesday.
The area McGowan was found in is just north of Roadside Park. There are no homes in that area for "quite a ways," VanVickle said. The person who located the body was walking the banks.
