"ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the body of a missing dancer with the St. Louis Ballet Company was discovered Wednesday morning.
On November 12, a state park ranger found Raffaella Stroik’s vehicle in a boat ramp parking lot off Highway 107 in Mark Twain State Park. Stroik's body was found Wednesday morning near a boat ramp in Florida, Missouri, police confirmed. According to police, a private pilot spotted a body in the water around 9:40 a.m. and the Missouri State Highway Patrol's water division recovered the body near a bank..."
Yeah. I mean there is a Florida and Mexico between her and I but also I'm closer to her than I am to Mexico. It's really a matter of perspective. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TimBone:
Florida, Missouri is very confusing when you don't know it exists and you read an article that references it. At first read, I thought the body was found in Florida, and the author just used too many commas.
I live close to there in Louisiana, Missouri. [Reply]
All that said, it is odd that a professional ballerina went [apparently almost a beeline] from a West County Whole Foods to a random lake in the boonies a couple hours away all by herself without mentioning it to anyone in late Oct/early Nov.
Anyone from the area know, is there something about the location that is attractive at that of year? Fall foliage? Migratory birds? [Reply]