DETROIT
, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A body found by duck hunters by a lake is believed to be a missing Michigan bank president
, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said Monday.
David Widlak
, 62
, president and chief executive officer of Community Central Bank in Mount Clemens
, disappeared a month ago.
The badly decomposed body was found Sunday in a marsh on the shores of Lake St. Clair in Harrison Township
, Hackel said. It was in a foot and a half of water and not visible from the road.
"It is quite probable he has been there for the entire length of time we were looking for him
," Hackel said.
"We're 99.9 percent certain it's David
," he told the Detroit Free Press.
An autopsy was to be performed Monday to verify the identification. A cause of death has yet to be determined but the case is being treated as a homicide.
The body was not bound and was found with a cellular telephone and driver's license
, Hackel told the Detroit News. The clothing matched Widlak's description and there was no weapon at the scene.
Widlak of Grosse Pointe Farms was last seen walking out of his bank Sept. 19.Related Topics Articles: