Coroner’s office says recovered body of missing security officer being investigated
Berkeley County SC November 3 2019
Michael Curry, 55, a security officer on duty at the Santee Cooper Power company went missing on February 1 2017.
On Wednesday, an employee of the company found a shoe, with a bone in it, near a lake on the property.
Many had searched for the security officer during numerous rescue attempts trying to find the man or the body and sadly, now, they have, 2 years and 9 months later.
The remains of officer Curry was pulled from a lake at the Jefferies Generation Station and has now undergone an autopsy.
“He still had the pants, jacket, and everything. It was still in basically one piece,” said Berkeley County Coroner George Oliver.
“Due to the lake level dropping, the shoe was actually exposed on the top of that big door. So once the employee found is we recovered it. We had them lift this door with a big crane,” said Oliver.
“We’re not sure what the reason is at this point. Why he entered the water, whether it was medical, accidental, but as far as foul play we don’t believe it was a factor in this. It appears at this time he either fell off of the wall on the generating station on the lake side and had to have entered through the lake side to where he was at. But we’re just not sure what caused him to fall at this point,” said Oliver.
A Santee Cooper spokesperson said Curry worked for a security company that provided security to the utility,
“All of our generating stations have security at each one of them, so he was assigned to do security for Jeffries Hydroelectric station, which is where he was the night he disappeared,” said Santee Cooper Spokesperson Mollie Gore.
Gore said he was found at one of the stations turbines. Authorities said this new development is surprising and that are still conducting their investigation.
