ROCHESTER, Minn. – Divers found a woman’s body in a car submerged in a retention pond at a northwest Rochester cement plant. It appeared, police said, that the car had been in the water a long time. The. vehicle showed only because the water level had been dropping due to dry conditions. The discovery was by a professional diving team, Adventures with Purpose. The team travels the country looking for submerged vehicles and missing people. The pond is at the Rochester Ready-Mix plant in the 4000 block of 19th Street Northwest. The person’s identity was not immediately ascertained.
Missing person
Speculation about the woman’s identify turned quicky to Jodi Boeckermann, 64, who disappeared in October 2021. She was last known to be driving a Pontiac Grand Am. She bad been the ibject of searches s by the volunteers with yhe group Adventures with Purpose. The divers had searched reservoirs and streams previously for Boeckerman but not the Ready-Mix retention pond. There is no obvious road into the pond.