BYRON, Minn. – Responding to a call about suspicious noises around a retention pond behind the Byron police station, officers made a check. They found a body – a man apparently in his 30s or 40s. The area was cordoned off. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was called in. The regional medical examiner’s Office was called to identify the remains and determine the cause of death. Immediate speculation was about a Rochester man, Wade Gordon Jr., 39, who was last seen walking away from his job a couple miles away.
