Police: Body found in river is missing Minnesota woman
MINNEAPOLIS -- A missing woman's body was inside a vehicle found in the Mississippi River near Red Wing, Minn., reports CBS Minnesota.
Marya Christiansen, a 23-year-old woman from Hager City, Wis., had been missing since Saturday. She left a bar across the Mississippi River in Red Wing after a night out with friends and police say presumably headed home to Hager City. The mother of two boys hadn't been seen since.
"We knew that she didn't just take off, so we knew there had to be something," Christiansen's freind Kayla Meyer said.
Officials with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office says a dive and rescue team pulled a white van from the Mississippi River just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, near the Trenton Island boat launch "under what's known as the back channel bridge."
They later said the van matched the vehicle Christiansen was last seen driving.