MONTGOMERY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a murder and asking for help to identify the victim.

On Thursday Deputies and Investigators were dispatched to the Card Creek camping area in Montgomery County  to meet with hunters who had discovered what they thought was a deceased female floating in the water approximately a quarter of a mile south of the boat ramp, according to a media release.

Deputies from MGSO and Paramedics from Independence Fire and EMS boarded the hunter’s boat and were taken to the location where the woman was last seen.  Paramedics loaded the woman into the boat and transported her to Labbette Health Hospital in Independence where she was pronounced dead.

Investigators from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Kansas Bureau of Investigations are currently investigating the incident as a homicide.  The victim has not been identified.

Anyone who has can recognize any of the tattoos on the victim or has information about the incident is asked to call the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.