Body believed to be that of trucker who went missing in November found in Iowa farm field

A assemblage believed to beryllium that of a missing motortruck operator has been recovered successful a northwest Iowa tract not acold from wherever his abandoned rig was discovered connected an isolated road conscionable earlier Thanksgiving, but details of his decease stay a mystery

A assemblage believed to beryllium that of a missing motortruck operator has been recovered successful a northwest Iowa tract not acold from wherever his abandoned rig was discovered connected an isolated road conscionable earlier Thanksgiving , but details of his decease stay a mystery.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety said idiosyncratic successful his tract discovered a assemblage Wednesday, adjacent wherever 53-year-old David Schultz's semi was recovered parked successful the mediate of the roadworthy connected Nov. 21.

The DPS didn't place the assemblage arsenic that of Schultz and said successful a quality merchandise that a forensic autopsy was planned. But Schultz's wife, Sarah, told reporters connected Thursday that the idiosyncratic recovered was wearing boots that matched her husband's, and his keys were recovered successful the pants pocket.

The discovery, she said, brought a substance of alleviation and sorrow.

“I'm gladsome we cognize wherever helium is now,” Sarah Schultz said. “There's inactive a batch of questions. Things don't marque sense.”

Schultz, of Wall Lake, Iowa, near location precocious connected the nighttime of Nov. 20 to prime up a load of pigs from a hog confinement adjacent Eagle Grove, Iowa. He was expected to present the pigs the adjacent greeting to a livestock trader successful Sac City, Iowa, a tiny farming municipality astir 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Des Moines. When helium didn’t amusement up, nary 1 could get him connected the phone.

Sarah Schultz reported him missing and the motortruck was recovered aboriginal that afternoon, little than 10 miles (6.2 km) northeast of his destination. The pigs were inactive successful the trailer. Schultz's wallet and telephone were wrong his rig. His overgarment was connected the roadside.

Jake Rowley, the determination squad person of United Cajun Navy, a nonprofit search-and-rescue enactment that helped with the search, said section instrumentality enforcement agencies searched the country wherever the assemblage was recovered instantly aft Schultz went missing, including with drones. More than 250 volunteers searched an further 100,000 acres.

An unanswered question, Rowley said, was whether the the assemblage “was determination the full time," oregon if it was precocious moved to the spot wherever it was found.

Sarah Schultz described her hubby arsenic a devoted household antheral who stressed to his kids the value of being respectful and moving hard.

“He was specified a bully father,” Sarah Schultz said. “It's not fair.”