Body of Suicide Victim Recovered from River

The body of an Atlanta man was found floating above the Morgan Falls Dam on the Chattahoochee River on the morning of Friday, January 20th. Park staff and Fulton County FD firefighters recovered the body. The victim was last seen on December 31st. He left a suicide letter for his family in which he said that he was going to jump from the Route 9 bridge into the river. A missing persons report was filed with the park by the family on January 8th. NPS and Georgia DNR rangers searched the river for the subsequent two weeks in an effort to find the victim.