Authorities try to identify body; not sure if it is missing Ashland, Ohio woman

FRISCO, N.C. - North Carolina authorities are trying to determine the identification of a body found Saturday afternoon, and if it is a missing Ashland mother.

Around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, a body was found by a construction worker in Frisco, North Carolina at Frisco Road and Gun on Highway 12, about 30 minutes from where 33-year-old Lynn Jackenheimer was last seen.

"He got out of his vehicle and checked what appeared to be something in a bag," said Dare County, North Carolina Sheriff Doug Doughtie. The body was found about 50 yards from area homes.

It was just after 11:30 p.m. Saturday night, when a green van traveled slowly up to the crime scene tape, where a Dare County Sheriff's deputy pulled the tape up to let the van through.

It was a van owned by Twifords Funeral Home and it carried the unidentified body to Greenville, North Carolina to be examined by a pathologist.

Sheriff Doughtie said they couldn't tell whether the body was male or female because of "the condition of the body and the way it was positioned."

Lynn Jackenhiemer, 33, has been missing for more than a week and there are no other missing person's reported in this area.

Family and friends gathered on Salt Creek Road in Frisco, which is about 30 minutes from Salvo, where Jackenheimer, along with Nate Summerfield, had traveled. Summerfield is Jackenheimer's ex-boyfriend and a "person of interest" to law enforcement.

"He's MIA," said Shaun Jackenheimer, Lynn's brother.

Raymond Johnson, Jackenheimer's stepfather, and Tasha Holland, Jackenheimer's sister, were out earlier Saturday searching through brush along Highway 12 in the blistering heat. The family had split up in teams with some searching in the north and south areas of Salvo. Jackenheimer's mother, Laura Johnson, searched  in Richmond, Virginia at a Super 8 Motel Summerfield stayed in on July 7. She joined her husband in the Outer Banks about an hour after the construction worker found the unidentified body.

NewsChannel5 has a crew in North Carolina and will bring you the latest information as it becomes available.