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Iowa man still missing a mates weeks aft semi holding babe pigs recovered connected road
A assemblage believed to beryllium that of a missing motortruck driver has been recovered successful a northwest Iowa section not acold from wherever his abandoned rig was discovered connected an isolated road conscionable earlier Thanksgiving, but specifications of his decease stay a mystery.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety said someone successful his section discovered a assemblage Wednesday, adjacent wherever 53-year-old David Schultz's semi was recovered parked successful nan mediate of nan roadworthy connected Nov. 21.
The DPS didn't place nan assemblage arsenic that of Schultz and said successful a news merchandise that a forensic autopsy was planned. But Schultz's wife, Sarah, told CBS connection KCCI-TV and different media outlets connected Thursday that nan personification recovered was wearing boots that matched her husband's, and his keys were recovered successful nan pants pocket.
This undated family photograph shows David Schultz pinch his 2 sons.
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The discovery, she said, brought a substance of alleviation and sorrow.
"I'm gladsome we cognize wherever he is now," Sarah Schultz said. "There's still a batch of questions. Things don't make sense."
She suspects foul play successful her husband's death, KCCI-TV reported.
"I cognize he would've ne'er near america unless thing bad happened," she said. "... I can't deliberation of immoderate logic why he would've walked a mile and a half retired to nan mediate of a section and laid down."
Schultz, of Wall Lake, Iowa, near location precocious connected nan nighttime of Nov. 20 to prime up a load of pigs from a hog confinement adjacent Eagle Grove, Iowa. He was expected to present nan pigs nan adjacent greeting to a livestock trader successful Sac City, Iowa, a mini farming municipality astir 90 miles northwest of Des Moines. When he didn't show up, nary 1 could get him connected nan phone.
Sarah Schultz reported him missing and nan motortruck was recovered later that afternoon, little than 10 miles (6.2 km) northeast of his destination. The pigs were still successful nan trailer. Schultz's wallet and telephone were wrong his rig. His overgarment was connected nan roadside.
Jake Rowley, nan location squad leader of United Cajun Navy, a nonprofit search-and-rescue statement that helped pinch nan search, said section rule enforcement agencies searched nan area wherever nan assemblage was recovered instantly aft Schultz went missing, including pinch drones. More than 250 volunteers searched an further 100,000 acres.
An unanswered question, Rowley said, was whether nan the assemblage "was location nan full time," aliases if it was precocious moved to nan spot wherever it was found.
Sarah Schultz described her hubby arsenic a devoted family man who stressed to his kids nan value of being respectful and moving hard.
"He was specified a bully father," Sarah Schultz said. "It's not fair."
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