MONTGOMERY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a murder and have identified 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 later identified as Cindy “Pinky” Ann Easom, 33, Miami, Oklahoma, 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.

Anyone who has information about the incident is asked to call the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.