PORTLAND (AP) – Three weeks after she was last seen alive, the body of a missing Massachusetts woman was recovered Monday in Portland Harbor.

The body of Lynn Moran, 24, of Shrewsbury, Mass., was discovered floating near the Maine State Pier; she was wearing the same clothes she was last seen in on the night she disappeared, said Tim Burton, the city’s acting police chief.

The state medical examiner’s office, which performed an autopsy, determined that the cause of death was accidental drowning, Burton said. It could be a few weeks before additional toxicology reports are completed, he said.

“We can say now that foul play was not involved in the disappearance and death of Lynn Moran,” Burton told reporters.

Friends and family circulated fliers with Moran’s picture throughout the region, and her family offered a $10,000 reward, as well.

Moran, who grew up in Portland, was visiting friends in Maine when she was last seen partying on Columbus Day weekend in the Old Port.

She visited several bars on the evening of Oct. 10 and went to a friend’s apartment, where she left her cell phone and purse. She was last seen wearing a man’s plaid shirt and jeans but no shoes on a cold and drizzly night. Police found the car she was planning to drive back to Massachusetts where she had left it, near Congress Street.

The last confirmed sighting was at 10:30 p.m. when she left Sangillo’s Tavern; she was walking in the direction of the waterfront when she left, Burton said. Witnesses had described her as being extremely intoxicated.

Police searched both Portland and South Portland to no avail last week. Police had a report that she had been seen later across the bridge in South Portland, but investigators will never know for sure whether or not it was Moran, Burton said.

Moran, an accomplished ballet dancer, was 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighed 100 pounds and had long, dark, curly hair. She was reported missing after she failed to report to her job as assistant director of two homes for foster children.

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