Update…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The brother of a New Town woman missing since last fall confirms it was his sister’s body that was found in a pickup truck pulled from a lake on the Fort Berthold Reservation earlier this week.Matthew Lone Bear tells the Bismarck Tribune that Olivia Lone Bear was identified by her tattoos. The truck was recovered from Lake Sakakawea on Tuesday. A volunteer group began searching the lake with sonar on July 25 and found what members believed was a submerged truck.
“At least she’s home now,” he said.

Volunteer Melaine Stoneman says divers worked to recover the truck, submerged about 30 feet deep and roughly 150 to 200 feet from shore.

Volunteer searchers fanned out across the state after the woman’s disappearance, using drones and setting up mobile camps. A group began searching Lake Sakakawea with sonar last week and found submerged truck, said Lissa Yellowbird-Chase, who coordinates the volunteer Sahnish Scouts of North Dakota.

The 32-year-old mother of five was last seen Oct. 25, 2017 driving in a pickup in New Town. The FBI is investigating.

 

The FBI, Bureau of Indian Affairs, North Dakota Highway Patrol and a sheriff’s office are involved in the investigation, said FBI spokesman Michael Kulstad. He declined to speculate as to whether anything criminal had occurred.

Previously…

He declined to say whether the body is male or female. Kulstad says the FBI is working on a positive identification, notifying next of kin and determining the circumstances of what happened.Thirty-two-year-old Olivia Lone Bear was last seen leaving a New Town restaurant Oct. 24. Searches by authorities and volunteers for the mother of five had yielded no clues.