HAMILTON COUNTY, Iowa — The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday afternoon that the body of a missing man was found in an acreage near Interstate 35.

On Friday morning the sheriff’s office announced that a multi-agency search was taking place along I-35 near Ellsworth to find a man missing since early April. That man was 31-year-old Marcus Anthony Taylor, who was believed to have been on his way to Wisconsin from Fort Worth, Texas to visit his dying grandmother.

According to the sheriff’s office, Taylor’s license plates for his blue Hyundai Santa Fe were last recorded on Tuesday, April 8 while traveling on I-35 in Missouri. At about 10:50 p.m. that night Taylor’s vehicle was involved in a single-vehicle crash on I-35 in Hamilton County. When first responders arrived at the crash scene, they only found Taylor’s vehicle. The sheriff’s office said that despite an extensive search involving a thermal imaging drone, K9, and other resources, Taylor was nowhere to be found.

At around 2:30 p.m. Friday the sheriff’s office announced that they located the body of who they believe to be Taylor inside a closed structure on an acreage roughly one mile away from the crash site. According to the sheriff’s office, it’s believed that Taylor made his way to the structure in search of shelter after the crash and that no foul play is suspected.

The sheriff’s office said Taylor’s body has been taken to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation laboratory for an autopsy.

The agencies that assisted the sheriff’s office include the Star 1 Search and Rescue of Story County, the Iowa State Patrol, Ellsworth Fire and Rescue, Hamilton County Emergency Management, Iowa Department of Transportation, Dallas-Fort Worth Police Department, and the Minnesota Bureau of Apprehension.

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