Officials with Bethel Search and Rescue say they believe they have found the body of George Evan, one of the two missing people believed to have fallen through the ice on the Kuskokwim River more than a month ago.
In a post on the group's website shortly before midnight Wednesday, the search and rescue group wrote that earlier that day, around 2:55 p.m., the body of a man they believe is Evan was found about "46 feet underwater on the riverbed and under the ice."
The body was recovered from the Kuskokuak Slough about a quarter of a mile downstream from where the body of Ralph "Jimmy" Demantle, 51, was recovered on Dec. 14.
Demantle and Evan were riding an ATV on the Kuskokwim River, with 27-year-old Sally Stone, from Bethel to Akiak when their ATV crashed through an open hole in the river ice Dec. 12, authorities believe.
Stone is still missing.