The Menominee Police Department in Michigan confirmed on Friday that the body recovered near Little Strawberry Island in the Bay of Green Bay earlier this week is a woman they have been looking for since January.
The Brown County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the woman as 42-year-old Janice Pipp of Greendale, Wis. According to the release from the department, Pipp went missing on January 13th after she walked away from a vehicle on the ice of Green Bay during an argument. For weeks, authorities searched the ground, in the water, and through the air to search for Pipp. On June 4th, first responders from the Gibraltar Fire Department, Gibraltar First Responders, Gibraltar Police Department, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Door County Emergency Services, and the Door County Sheriff’s Department helped recover the body. After the preliminary autopsy was completed on June 6th, the early findings show no signs of foul play, but a final determination will be made after toxicology reports and the full autopsy are completed.
