BARBOUR COUNTY, W.Va. — Search teams have located the body of a kayaker missing more than a week on the Middle Fork River in Barbour County.
Teams located the body of Jamie Lynn Gray, 41, of Hacker Valley, W.Va. Monday evening. She was about a mile and a half downstream from where she submerged and never resurfaces during a kayaking trip with friends on the waterway just downstream from Audra State Park.
Teams spotted the body about 3:45 p.m. Monday afternoon and she was finally recovered by a team working with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police around 7:30 p.m.
Gray was with a team of about ten experienced kayakers shooting the rapids of the Middle Fork River back on February 9th. She went under while paddling a rapid known for large boulders and strong undercurrents. The effort to recover her body was delayed more than a week due to extremely high water conditions and high flows on the river. The effort resumed on Sunday in the area she was lost and moved downstream Monday where her body was later located.
Natural Resources Police are leading the investigation into her death.