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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say they have found the body
of a woman visiting Alaska’s capital city who did not return to
her cruise ship from a hike she said she was taking.
The Alaska Department of Public Safety said the body of
62-year-old Marites Buenafe of Kentucky was found by an Alaska
Army National Guard helicopter crew late Thursday below the
ridge line of Gold Ridge. Troopers and Juneau Mountain Rescue
were able to recover the body with help from Temsco Helicopters
and the National Guard.
Her next of kin have been notified, and her body will be sent to
the state medical examiner’s office for autopsy.
The Juneau Police Department received a report Tuesday afternoon
that the woman, who told relatives that morning that she was
getting off the Norwegian Bliss to hike, had not returned to the
vessel by its departure time.
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