by Cid Standifer
Monday afternoon at 4 p.m., Jody Matherly from the Grinnell Police Department and Wade Kisner from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations (DCI) held a press conference concerning a body found in the pool of the Grinnell Golf and Country Club. An employee of the country club found the body as he was taking the cover off of the outdoor pool to prepare it for the summer. The Grinnell Police Department shut down the country club and called in DCI mobile lab units and investigators, including all of the agents who were involved in the case of Paul Shuman-Moore ’09, who disappeared last September.
Matherly said it appeared that the body had been there “probably for weeks, if not months.” However, he had no information about its gender, clothing, or identification. Matherly said that the police may have to review the search process that was conducted last fall after Shuman-Moore’s disappearance if further investigation shows that the body has been there since September.
Approximately 10 to 20 Grinnell College students attended the press conference, including many of Shuman-Moore’s friends. Plans administrator Eryn O’Neil ’07 posted information about the press conference on the Plans front page about 45 minutes before the conference, and news about it also spread by word of mouth. Residence Life Coordinators were contacted by the college earlier this afternoon and excused from all meetings so that they can be available to help comfort students. Matherly said that Shuman-Moore’s parents have been contacted, but “we’re not much help to them right now because we don’t know enough to be of any help.”
As of Monday afternoon, the body was being sent to DCI labs. An autopsy will be performed by state medical examiners tomorrow morning to try and identify the body and determine the cause of death. Matherly hopes that they can determine the identity of the body within the next few days. He said that “Obviously, if this is somebody we have knowledge of that is missing…if we have something to compare to, that would naturally speed things up.” He intends to hold a press conference with updated information tomorrow afternoon.
The S&B will do its utmost to cover this matter as fully as possible.
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Club manager says body is Grinnell student
By MEGHAN V. MALLOY
REGISTER STAFF REPORTER
April 17, 2007
The manager of the Grinnell Golf & Country Club said Tuesday afternoon that police told him that the body found in the club's pool a day earlier was that of missing Grinnell student Paul Shuman-Moore.
Manager Galyn Gohlmann, who had discovered the body about 11 a.m. Monday morning when he pulled back the winter covering over the pool, said he had no other information except for the identity of the body.
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