The body of missing Baltimore City Fire Department cadet found in Liberty Reservoir
Goggins had been reported missing to police on May 30, 2011
June 19, 2011 By Kevin Dayhoff
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The body of missing Baltimore City Fire Department cadet in training, Rodney Earl Goggins Jr., 20, was found this afternoon in Liberty Reservoir.
According to information from a Carroll County Sheriff’s Office information release by Major Phillip S. Kasten, it was shortly after 2 p.m., Sunday afternoon when boaters summons Baltimore City Watershed Rangers, who were patrolling the reservoir, and reported a floating body near the shoreline south of the Liberty Road bridge.
Upon arrival the rangers “located a partially decomposed body in a remote area of dense shoreline vegetation and summonsed Sheriff’s Deputies and Rescue Dive Teams from the Gamber Volunteer Fire Company to assist,” according to Kasten.
Goggins had been reported missing to police on May 30, 2011 and has been the subject of a large, multi-agency search ever since.
On June 1 Baltimore County Police discovered his vehicle parked unattended along the shoulder on the Liberty Road adjacent to the Reservoir.
Sunday afternoon, sheriff’s investigators did not locate any obvious signs of trauma on Goggin’s body, according to Kasten. The body has been transported to the State Medical Examiners Office for an autopsy.
The investigation continues. Carroll County Sheriff’s Office investigators are working closely with the Baltimore County Police in their investigation of the events leading to Goggin’s death.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Detective Corporal Carlos Bustos of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office at 410-386-2900, or the Anonymous TIPS Hotline at 1-888-399-TIPP.
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