
The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, a police spokesman said.Police had said Tuesday morning they believed Douglas Schantz, president of Sequent Energy Management, had fallen into the river. He is believed to have drowned, police said. An autopsy will be performed. Authorities recovered Schantz's body around noon on Tuesday, according to New Orleans Police Department spokesman Gary Flot. Police said Schantz was found with all his personal belongings, including his wallet, credit cards, identification and jewelry. Schantz, 54, was last seen at 2:06 a.m. Friday outside a Bourbon Street bar, New Orleans police Superintendent Warren Riley told reporters Tuesday morning. No one had heard from him since then.
power leveling aionRiley said then that detectives had reviewed video from "almost every" business in the busy French Quarter. Several cameras captured a "disoriented" Schantz walking alone from a bar toward the Mississippi River, Riley said. Schantz had been drinking, Riley said, and was headed toward a boat at the wharf.
powerleveling aion"The last video of Mr. Schantz is when he was near the boat Natchez, walking on a 2- to 3-foot-wide walkway near the river," Riley said. "From 2:40 until 6:40 a.m., video was watched and Mr. Schantz was never -- once he walked out of that frame near the Natchez, he never returned on any frames of the video."Riley said according to the video footage, no one ever approached Schantz during the walk.