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CAMDEN, Maine — The body of a North Carolina man was recovered Saturday after he apparently jumped from the top of Maiden’s Cliff.
The Maine Warden Service reported that about 2 p.m. Saturday, the Maine Warden Service responded to a report of a missing person in Camden.
A North Carolina man in his mid-40s had told his wife he was going hiking at Camden Hills State Park on Friday, and when she didn’t hear from him by the next day, she contacted law enforcement Saturday to say he was missing. First responders located the man’s vehicle parked at the trailhead to Maiden Cliff off Youngtown Road, and located his backpack at the top of the mountain near the edge of a cliff, unattended.
Game wardens, along with members of the Camden Police Department, Camden Fire Department, Camden Hills State Park Staff, Maine State Police and Coastal Mountain Search and Rescue began searching the top of the mountain and below, and at approximately 3:15 p.m., a volunteer located the man, deceased, at the base of the cliff, according to the warden service.
The Maine Warden Service along with Coastal Mountain Search and Rescue team transported the man’s body off the rocky mountainside, which took nearly four hours. The body will be examined by the Maine medical examiner’s office, as is the case with all unattended deaths. The death is not considered suspicious.
In all, over a dozen people assisted with the recovery, including six members of Coastal Mountain Search and Rescue, three game wardens, two Camden police officers, two state park staff members, one state trooper and several members of the Camden Fire Department.
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