According to the Scott County Sheriff’s Office, a helicopter was searching in the area of South Rays Fork at around 8:30 AM this past Monday morning. That’s when a body was spotted along the tree line.

Crews on the ground moved to investigate the body, identifying the remains as being female.

The coroner is now working to positively ID the body.

Crews were originally searching the South Rays Fork area for Mary Haralson.

Haralson was last heard from this past Friday night. She left a voicemail saying she had rolled her ankle near water and a deer stand.

Officials say they were called out to a home for a welfare check on Sunday for another woman. That’s when they discovered Haralson was missing.

When crews arrived at Haralson’s home, they discovered Haralson’s wife had suffered medical issues and was taken to UK Hospital, but neighbors said Haralson should have been there too, which is when the search began.

“The neighbor came by and said, ‘look, you know there’s another lady that lives here.’ At that point, they started looking a little deeper into everything. They found a telephone, voicemail that this lady was back in the woods somewhere. And we found that Sunday,” said Randy Catlette, Scott County Search and Rescue Coordinator.

Crews began searching on Sunday evening for Haralson, but they suspended the search at around 10:00 PM Sunday night.

The search resumed on Monday morning with K-9 units, additional search parties and the sheriff office’s helicopter.