Officials Identify Body Found in Rib Mountain

Monday, September 26th, 2022 -- 12:01 PM

(Mike Leischner, WSAU) Officials have identified the body that was found in Rib Mountain last month as that of a man who hadn't been seen by his family in decades.

They belonged to 74-year-old Robert Wenitschka, and according to the Marathon County Sheriff's office it's unclear how long he had been in Central Wisconsin and how he got there, in fact not even his family knew of his whereabouts until they were contacted by investigators for DNA samples to confirm him remains.

An autopsy confirmed that Wenitschka died of natural causes, no foul play or trauma was present. According to his family he had served in Vietnam, but went missing some 40 years ago.

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