Body of missing UGA student found in Wyoming

The body of missing University of Georgia student Oliver Woodward has been found in Wyoming. The 21 year-old from metro Atlanta disappeared July 4 while rafting with friends in the Snake River in northwestern Wyoming.

“Star Valley Search and Rescue recovered from the river in Lincoln County, Wyoming, a body that has been identified through dental records as Oliver Woodward,” Teton County sheriff’s spokeswoman Riclyn Betsinger said.

His mother, Julia Woodward, told the Union Recorder Oliver graduated Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta.

He had been living in Jackson, Wyo., for the summer, Teton County sheriff’s Sgt. Lloyd Funk said.

Woodward and another rafter, who were in a group of six, were thrown when the raft went through rapids known as King's Wave, Funk told a Wyoming newspaper.

None of the rafters had on a life jacket, he said.

Responding officers eventually found the other rafter in good health.

Woodward's death was due to accidental drowning, according to Lincoln County Deputy Coroner Maryanne Christensen.