The St. Joseph Police Department plans to issue a press release later today with more information that has been discovered from the investigation of a man’s body found Tuesday afternoon in Corby Pond.

“We hope to have an ID released by the end of the day,” said Jeff Wilson, Captain with the St. Joseph Police Department.  “An autopsy was completed late last night, results are pending.”

Police responded Tuesday just after 1 p.m. to Corby Pond located off the Parkway just before the 22nd street bridge.  Two kids had snagged pieces of clothing while fishing.  When officers got there a short time later they found a body in the pond.  Corby Pond was quickly closed off to visitors and the Parkway closed off in both directions in the area while detectives investigated the scene.

“It’s being investigated as a dead body which at this point is unknown,” Wilson said. “It’s a death investigation.”

Wilson said a home located near 35th and Sacramento was searched Tuesday night in connection to the body that was found in Corby Pond earlier that day.

He would not say what authorities were searching for.

The next step in the investigation Wilson said is the result of the autopsy results which he expects sometime today.

While the cause of death is one of the reasons to preform an autopsy Wilson said it doesn’t always turn out that way.

“A lot of reasons why you do an autopsy, one is to substantiate a cause of death but a lot of times it doesn’t turn out that way.  A lot of times the pathologist will give us an undetermined answer,” Wilson said.