COOPER COUNTY —Authorities have recovered the body of a woman who drowned earlier this week in Cooper County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported just before 1a.m. Monday, a 33-year-old Booneville woman entered the Missouri River on foot just downstream from mile marker 200 and failed to resurface.
Searchers later found her body near a shoreline approximately 55 miles downstream. She was transported to Parker-Millard Funeral Home.