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details from WCAX-TV Burlington VT
- October 13, 2006
A sad ending to an exhaustive search. Channel 3 News has learned that police have found the body of Michelle Gardner-Quinn, the missing U-V-M student.
Official sources tell us that her body was found Friday near the Huntington Gorge in Richmond. We are told it was not in the gorge, but along Dugway Road.
No other details are known at this time.
Michelle has been missing since early Saturday morning. She was seen walking with a man who has been called 'cell phone man'. A man who loaned her his cell phone so she could call her friends. The police have not identified him, but Channel 3 News has learned he is 36-year old Brian Rooney who used to live in Richmond.
There is still no word why dozens of police officers, including a forensic lab, spent the day at a house being rehabilitated on Spruce Street in Burlington. Police spent much of the last two days there. most of the day.
Police have scheduled a press conference for 4:30 p.m. Friday.