NewsApril 30, 2013

Authorities have identified a body recovered Sunday from the Mississippi River. Wendell Robinson was fishing with his 10-year-old stepson and another man April 6 near the Alton, Ill., lock and dam when their boat capsized, Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton said...

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Authorities have identified a body recovered Sunday from the Mississippi River.

Wendell Robinson was fishing with his 10-year-old stepson and another man April 6 near the Alton, Ill., lock and dam when their boat capsized, Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton said.

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Robinson's stepson was rescued, but Robinson and the other man drowned, Clifton said. The other man's body was recovered two weekends ago, he said.

Workers on a tow boat found Robinson's body about 9 a.m. Sunday among debris around a barge south of the Missouri Dry Dock & Repair Co. near the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge in Cape Girardeau.

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