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Teen's Body Recovered From Mississippi River

Posted: Jul 23, 2010 8:20 AM by Sharlee Barriere

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DELTA, La. (AP) - The body of a Tallulah teenager has been sent
to the New Orleans Coroner's Office for an autopsy, and officials
are still investigating the actual cause of her death.
Officials said they recovered the body of 17-year-old Jacqueline
Foster shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Capt. Alan
Bankston said that Foster and her father were
fishing from a boat in the Mississippi River backwater in Madison
Parish near the Delta community, when the teen fell overboard.

Topics: teen, body, recovered, from, river, mississippi

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