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Body of Terrapin Run Developer Found

June 1st, 2018 by WCBC Radio

The 17-day search for a missing swimmer ended Friday morning when authorities located the body of 55-year-old Michael Carnock Sr.

The News-Herald reports the body was found about the 8-mile marker of the river shoreline across from the Yacht Club in Tellico Village, Daryl Smith, Loudon County Emergency Management Agency director, said.

Carnock was known locally as the driving force behind the controversial Terrapin Run housing community project planned for eastern Allegany County. Although the project was bogged down by legal challenges and other obstacles in the past ten plus years- it had been discussed locally as recently last month during a meeting of the Allegany County Commissioners.

Members of the Tellico Village Volunteer Fire Department found the body during their two-a-day surface and shoreline checks. TVVFD, EMA and Tellico Boaters Assistance Response Team had alternated search responsibilities for days.

Sheriff Tim Guider said an autopsy expected Saturday will verify if the body is Carnock, but all indicators point to an accurate identification.

“Obviously, we hope to find some answers to what maybe initially caused him to disappear like that,” Guider said. “Maybe it was a medical event, could have been a heart attack, could have been cramps.”

Carnock may have been struck by a boat. Guider said an autopsy can confirm if that occurred post-mortem.

The search included various agency assistance from inside and outside Loudon County.

“I feel like it was a well-designed (search), lots of agency involvement, lots of volunteers,” Guider said. “I believe after the first week or so we had exhausted all of our resources and capabilities and so we had to scale down a little bit but we never lost focus of every day we were out there at least twice a day. There was another push the last few days by a couple of outside agencies that came in.”

2 Responses to “Body of Terrapin Run Developer Found”

  1. June 01, 2018 at 4:30 pm, Joe White said:

    All of the recent articles concerning Loudoun County, Va. have misspelled the name of the county.

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    • June 04, 2018 at 12:39 pm, Nicole said:

      > That’s because its not Loudoun County, Virginia; its Loudon County, Tennessee.

      Reply

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