Crime & Safety
Hikers Find Body of Missing Man in Mendota Heights on Thanksgiving
The search for a missing Twin Cities man ended after hikers discovered a body on Thanksgiving in a Mendota Heights nature preserve.
The search for a missing Twin Cities man ended after hikers discovered a body on Thanksgiving in a Mendota Heights nature preserve. The Mendota Heights Police Department began searching for Joseph Michael Hernandez, 35, after he went missing from a motel in the city Nov. 7.
The body was discovered in Friendly Marsh Park in Mendota Heights Thursday afternoon, WCCO reported.
"About 2:20 p.m., we received a 911 call," Mendota Heights Police Capt. Kelly McCarthy told KSTP. "Some people walking in the nature preserve behind us came across a dead body, the body of a male."
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Hernandez is survived by his daughter.
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