Police: Missing CDC Worker’s Body Recovered In Atlanta River

Timothy Cunningham, 35, was an epidemiologist at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He disappeared Feb. 12, and his family reported him missing Feb. 16.

Updated at 4:04 p.m. Thursday

An employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was reported missing more than six weeks ago was found drowned in a river, with no sign of foul play, authorities said Thursday.

Timothy Cunningham’s body was found Tuesday partially submerged in water and mud on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River in northwest Atlanta, fire-rescue department spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said at a news conference.