Lynn Moran Update: Accidental Drowning

Update: Found body identified as Lynn Moran, cause of death announced as accidental drowning. h/t Missing and Abducted

Details are still sketchy, though a local TV station plans an update at noon. Apparently a body was discovered in the harbor. A ground search had already been conducted in the area with no results.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Portland police said a body has been found on the city's waterfront near the Maine State Pier, but there's no word yet on the identity.

Police are on the scene after the body was found Monday morning.

It was three weeks ago Monday that Lynn Moran, 24, disappeared after an evening in Portland's Old Port.

Comments

[cindi in pa]

Thanks Dan.

[jilyjam]

Thanks Dan. I'm not sure if this type of thing has always been happening but now that the media is so advanced we just hear about it more? Or is it just that people are becoming more savage/deranged?

[kin]

It has to be her. A beautiful young woman who lived a beautiful life helping people that needed her. This sucks!

I don't get why nobody called police seeing her walking around with NO shoes when it was 55 degrees and raining! It sounds like she was more then just intoxicated (date rape drug?) but whatever the TRUTH is a call to get her help should've been made. She was seen by enough people in a well populated area that her death could've been prevented.

Her sister said last night on "The Line Up" the 'friend?' who had her cell phone made the call to her from "out of town". That was very suspicious and I thought for sure that's where they'd find her body. It looks now like I was wrong.

[chip]

I'm not sure if this type of thing has always been happening but now that the media is so advanced we just hear about it more? Or is it just that people are becoming more savage/deranged?

Posted by: jilyjam | Oct 31, 2005 12:16:34 PM

good question. i have a feeling people are becoming more savage. perhaps with all the media,video games ,internet etc....people are more & more desensatized.
it seems years ago these incidents would be a aberration. read the newspapers on line...it happens every day

what a waste!!!my heart goes out to lynn & her family

[absynth_minded]

Media coverage of missing persons is a double-edged sword..

Despite how much interest it generates and how helpful it can be, it never fails to inspire similar future cases.

[jilyjam]

Why did she go out without shoes? Did she just step out to smoke (ballerina?) and get blindsided? This just doesn't make sense.

[Kelly3]

I live in Maine and the news up her covered her story every night. Beautiful girl and a beautiful family. So sad. For me I never believed the sightings. People had the story and I believe if someone actually saw her they would have reported it right away or tried to stop her. Her family and friends were out there everyday and everynight.

[jilyjam]

I'm sure I'm very naive to this, but how does one rule accidental drowning so quickly? Wouldn't they have to rule out things like date rape drug, physical harm, etc.? How did they do this so fast, when for others it takes days?

[!]

It sure sounds strange that they came to the conclusion that she died from accidental drowning so fast.
Sounds supicious to me. JMO

[Kelly3]

From what I gather the report from the news was she was last seen in a bar had been drinking and left the bar and was seen walking alone towards the pier. They will be doing tests for drugs but test results won't be in for weeks. Prayers for her family, friends and all who loved her. Godspeed Lynn!

[Sweetie]

Last I read, she left her boyfriend's (?) apt without her cell and without shoes on in October, wet and rainy. Check this guy out, real good.

[FoolsGold]

One wonders why it took the police so long to take last known location and last known direction of travel and come up with the pier?

Ofcourse, despite reports of intoxication which probably do represent intoxication rather than disorientation and reports of beligerence which probably do represent beligerence and not 'date rape drug reaction', a certain amount of 'strange behavior' started at the apartment and the time line does not seem to indicate intoxication at that time.

If it was cold and rainy a woman donning inadequate clothing and leaving barefoot might well feel overly warm due to carbon monoxide from a heater, so too the boyfriend could be not drunk but confused so as not to notice her departure. Boyfriend seems more concerned with shoes and phone than with the implications of her having left them behind.

Initiation of strange behavior was at the apartment and timeline seems to provide inadequate opportunity for her to have been totally blotto by that time.

[Gemmie]

I have to first say that my prayers go out to Lynns family and friends.

Let me say this about Portland...and the Old Port. Seeing a young woman wobbling down the street with no shoes on is not considering strange. There are so many strange people in Portland that it can happen and noone takes notice.

I would love to see the video to see if anyone else was on the pier....having been on that Pier at 2am before. there were three other people the night a few friends and I were.

As for accidental drowning..if she fell in intoxicated or not..it would be considered accidental unless they can prove someone threw her in. They have no proof that she jumped in...who knows maybe being intoxicated..she may have thought the water was closer than it was.

I feel bad that this is a tragic end to a lovely vibrant compassionate womans' life....lets not make assumptions to tarnish her memory.

Blessings to her family, friends and to Lynn...she truely will be missed.

[Sharee]

Simply, who the hell leaves anyones house without shoes and their phone?

And who lets them leave like that, supposing the other is drunk?

My first suspicion was that she was running from something, that's the only reason I'd ever leave without my belongings - if I really wanted to get away.

And hey, isn't in normal for intoxicated people to "accidently" wind up in harbors?

Ridiculous

[a friend]

having worked with lynn, i got to see first hand what an amazing person she was and all that she did for others, her death is a great loss

[irrelevant]

as the media coverage has long faded away its hard looking back at such a tragic event,although its no longer in CNNs day to day lives i know the felling of being left w/o a familly member at the end of a media frenzy(nothing compared to this one though), no emptier posible felling, my thoughts and prayers went to the familly and still do.