After Discovery Of Body, Douglas County Calls Off Search For Missing Woman
WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (CBS4) - The search for a missing woman in Douglas County has been called off after that woman's car was found and then a woman's body was found nearby many hours later.
Sheriff's deputies aren't saying the body belongs to the woman who went missing, but they said the death does not appear suspicious.
On Monday morning Douglas County search and rescue crews found a crashed, abandoned vehicle along Highway 67 near Rainbow Falls. The car had plowed through a fence and hit a tree.
The car belonged to Kathleen Leber, 57, of Woodland Park. Leber had been reported missing Sunday night.
The body was found an undetermined distance away from the vehicle in the afternoon on Monday.
The coroner is expected to identify the body along with the cause of death sometime in the next few days.
A neighbor of Leber's told CBS4 she was stunned by the news.
"Word spreads quickly in a small community and I'm just very shocked to hear about it. Very saddened," Kathleen Burke said. "I'm very, very saddened for the family to have this kind of tragedy occur."