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KEENE, N.H. (AP) – State police on Tuesday identified a body recovered in a Langdon cornfield as a man who disappeared in the massive flooding earlier this month.

Police identified the man as Spencer Petty, who had been missing since floods hit Alstead the weekend of Oct. 8 and 9. He was last seen near the Cold River with his van.

The body was found on Saturday during the ongoing cleanup and recovery efforts. The cornfield is along Route 123, parts of which were washed away during the floods.

State Police also said they found the body of a woman in Walpole, along the southern banks of the Cold River near the Drewsville Bridge. She has not been identified.

Petty was one of four people who were missing and presumed dead in the flooding. The others are Sally and Tim Canfield, whose house in Alstead was washed away when the Warren Lake dam overflowed; and kayaker Thomas Mangieri of Antrim, who was last seen in the North Branch River, where he was washed away from a tree he was clinging to.

Others killed in the flooding were Steven Day of Unity and Ashley Gate of Claremont, both 20, and William Seale, 64. Day and Gates died when their SUV plunged off a washed-out bridge into a river in Unity, while Seale apparently drowned when a river overflowed in Langdon. He was found in the same cornfield as Petty.

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