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Updated: 8:38 PM Feb 21, 2010
UPDATE: Crews Discover Missing Man's Body on River Bank
Crews from Pike County, Kentucky have found the body of 29-year-old William Blankenship.
Posted: 9:00 PM Feb 20, 2010Reporter: Amanda Barren Email Address: Amanda.Barren@wsaz.com |
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UPDATE: Sunday
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Emergency crews discovered the body of William Blankenship Sunday in Mingo County.
Members of the Belfry Fire Department were searching an area of the Big Sandy River near where Blankenship was last seen on February 12th.
Emergency crews found Blankenship's body on the river bank near a flood wall in Williamson. The site was very close to the Williamson Campus of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, where Blankenship was last seen.
West Virginia State Police are handling the investigation.
ORIGINAL STORY
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Crews in Pike County, Kentucky will be out Sunday looking for a man who's been missing for more than a week.
West Virginia State Police say that William Blankenship was last seen, last Friday. He is 29-years-old and from Pike County, Kentucky.
Blankenship was at the Williamson Campus of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College in West Williamson on February 12th. The last time anyone heard from him was when he texted his fiance around 5 p.m to say that his cousin would drive him home.
At the request of his family, emergency crews will search the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River Sunday.
Blankenship is 6'1" and weighs about 210 pounds. He has short brown hair and blue eyes. He was last wearing a Nike Shirt with black trim, a white ball cap and grey Puma Shoes. He has a tattoo on his back of a pair of wings.
Anyone with information is asked to call West Virginia State Police.
Latest Comments
This was my uncle and we miss him very much ; and I just hope he knows that i loved him and i miss him very much :(
I just wanted to thank everyone who helped in the search for Henry. We do NOT suspect foul play. I realize that people will be talking about this, but please try to be respectful to the family. Don't speculate and talk trash about him. We love & miss him so very much and are having a difficult time dealing with this loss. Henry was a wonderful son, brother, uncle and father. He just had too many demons and was tired for fighting them. Please keep us in your prayers.
Funeral services at 1pm today at the Gospel Revelation Tabernacle Church, Burnwell,KY Burial will follow in the Thompson-Moore Cemetry,Burnwell,KY
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