Logan Dunne, Has Been Found As An Angel

The body of a 32-year-old man missing for five months was discovered by a deer hunter, Illinois officials said. Logan Dunne had been missing since June 2 from Peoria, Illinois, according to the Peoria Police Department. Family members said he escaped from Carle Health Methodist Hospital in Peoria, where he had been admitted “against his will.” Dunne had bipolar disorder, and family feared he was “not thinking, communicating or behaving rationally” because he had stopped taking his medication.

Dunne’s family initially was not told of his escape because he is an adult, according to 25 News Now. Police notified the public June 7 of Dunne’s disappearance, five days after he was last seen. Crews searched extensively for Dunne until Sunday, Nov. 12, when a deer hunter found human remains in a wooded area of Peoria County, according to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office.

 Those remains were identified as Dunne, Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said. A cause of death has not been determined, but the sheriff’s office said foul play is not suspected.

Family said on the “Find Logan Dunne” Facebook group the previous five-plus months had been the hardest of their lives. “This is not the outcome we all hoped for, but thank you again for all the support and effort in finding Logan,” the family said in the Nov. 13 statement. “We wouldn’t have been able to do this without you.”

Dunne worked in the OSF Saint Francis Medical Center’s cardiology unit performing echocardiograms, 25 News Now reported. His mother, Heather Dunne, told “Dateline” her son was an active outdoorsman who had a big family.

“He is adored by his nephews and nieces,” Heather Dunne said in August. “And he is very close to his family.” Peoria is about 170 miles southwest of Chicago.