The body found in the River Wyre, in the English county Lancashire on Sunday, has been identified as Nicola Bulley.
Lancashire Constabulary held a press conference after spending 24 days searching for the missing mother-of-two.
Her body was found less than a mile from where Bulley, 45, vanished on January 27 while walking her dog on a riverside footpath just outside the tiny village of St Michael’s on Wyre.
The discovery was made after a tip-off from two walkers at 11.36am (local time) who spotted a body in the river, prompting police to send reinforcements who then “sadly recovered a body”.