A body found in the St. Lawrence River earlier this month has been identified as Casey Oakes, who disappeared in March after he was last seen operating a boat later found near the bodies of two migrant families.
Oakes was 30 when he disappeared on March 29. His body was found in the river July 3 near Ross Island, but it took some time for the identity to be confirmed.
He had last been seen at night, launching into the St. Lawrence from the eastern part of Cornwall Island — near the Ontario-Quebec border — in a light blue boat.
Police search marshland in Akwesasne on March 31,
