The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared..
Former CIA Director William Colby probably collapsed from a heart attack or stroke while he was out canoeing, and then fell into the water and died, the state medical examiner’s office said Friday.
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An autopsy found evidence the 76-year-old Colby had suffered from hardening of the arteries, Chief Medical Examiner John Smialek said in a statement.
Colby’s body was found Monday after an eight-day search involving divers, dogs and sonar equipment. He was found lying face-down in a marshy riverbank, near where he disappeared on a canoe outing.
“He apparently had a heart attack or stroke and fell out of the canoe into and the water where he died of hypothermia and drowning,” said Jeannette A. Duerr, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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