2 bodies found in the Potomac River

Two bodies have been found in the Potomac River in D.C. on two consecutive days.

Most recently, a body was found before 1 p.m. Thursday near the Kennedy Center.

D.C. police officials told NBC Washington that it was badly decomposed.

On Wednesday, another body was located in the water before 4:30 p.m. between Theodore Roosevelt Island and the Virginia shoreline.

It is unknown if the two discoveries are related.

The medical examiner’s office is investigating their causes of death.


Thomas Robertson

Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.

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