Autopsy confirms body found at Coralville Reservoir is missing snowmobiler

The State Medical Examiner's office used dental records today to identify the body of Marty Davis. The test shows that he died from drowning and that Davis' death was accidental.

A kayaker found the body in the Coralville Lake early Friday afternoon.

Martin “Marty” Davis, 52, of rural Cedar Rapids, was last seen by his girlfriend on Jan. 3, 2010 when he had told her that he was going out for a ride on his snowmobile. Area law enforcement, partnered with dozens of volunteers, spent days searching the fields and ditches in the Coralville Lake area, but found nothing.

Authorities and family had worried that Davis' snowmobile had fallen through the ice.

Johnson County Sheriff's deputies say the body was found approximately half a mile east of the Mid River Marina on the reservoir's south shore at around 1:30 p.m., not far from where a fisherman had found a snowmobiler's helmet on March 15 that family members later confirmed belonged to Davis.