CHANNAHON, Ill. (AP) — Illinois state police are searching a river and the area around it where a badly decomposed body was pulled from the water.
The area is in Will County, home to two missing women whose disappearances have drawn national media attention.
The body was found Wednesday by a cleaning crew. It was unclear if it was a woman's, and an autopsy was scheduled for Thursday.
Will County was home to Stacy Peterson and Lisa Stebic. Peterson's husband, Drew Peterson, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. He claims Stacy Peterson left him for another man in October 2007.
Authorities deemed Stebic's husband a "person of interest" in her 2007 disappearance. He denies wrongdoing.
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