February 27, 2009

SEBASTIAN — Police announced that a body found last month is that of Marcia Hulihan. State officials confirmed her identity through dental records. She had been reported missing in September.

According to TCPalm.com, authorities won’t be able to determine why Marcia Hulihan’s place of death was a watery canal just north of her apartment complex. Police do not suspect foul play in the case, but the state Medical Examiner’s Office was unable to say how the 50-year-old woman died.

Hulihan, a mother of one who worked at Wal-Mart in Sebastian, was last heard from on Sept. 7 when she called off from work and had her car taken into a repair shop, police said. Officers searched the grounds of the area near her home at Pelican Isle Apartments off of Main Street. No search proved successful until a team of volunteers from across the state found her body waist deep in a canal north of her apartment on Jan. 31.

Police had previously searched the area. However, Tropical Storm Fay in August dumped almost 2 feet of rain on Sebastian, Marcinik said. The area was saturated with water when police conducted searches there in September, Marcinik said.

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