Authorities have positively identified a body found in a northeastern Pennsylvania pond as that of a woman missing for five months.
The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reports that the Lackawanna County coroner's office used dental records to identify the body as that of 56-year-old Diane Zavislak of Trucksville.
Police were called to a site near the Susquehanna River after the body was found Saturday. Zavislak's car had been found in November a few miles away.
Chief James Balavage of the Kingston Township police department said he doesn't know whether the death was a homicide or a suicide and that Zavislak's body was fully clothed and showed no obvious signs of trauma. The coroner's office says the cause and manner of death remain under investigation.
Zavislak faced a harassment charge at the time of her disappearance stemming from an incident with her husband, according to the paper. Her husband had planned on a protection notice.
“We know that there were problems with the relationship,” Balavage told the paper. “Whatever caused her to go that area -- which was basically unknown to her and her husband -- and why she was in that pond, only she and her maker know that.”
