Missing United Airlines executive found dead in forest near Chicago

The body of a United Airlines executive who has been missing for more than a year was found in a forest preserve near Chicago.

DuPage County Coroner Richard Jorgensen said in a statement that he heard reports of a deceased person found in the Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve on Friday. Contractors in the preserve found the body hanging by a belt from an uprooted tree in an area that local police had repeatedly searched. The coroner’s office was able to affirm the body’s identity by the end of the day.