Autopsy finds no trauma to found body

An autopsy Thursday showed no trauma to the partly decomposed body of a man found Wednesday morning by the floodwall near downtown Cape Girardeau.

Lester L. Jeffrey, Jr., 59, of Cape Girardeau, was reported missing on Monday. Some city workers discovered his body around 10 a.m. Wendesday while mowing down a grassy lot just north of Broadway St.

Nothing in the autopsy, conducted at Mineral Area Regional Hospital in Farmington, Mo., indicated any sort of trauma, Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton said.

Toxicology results, expected in several weeks, may shed further light on the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey's death, but right now authorities lean toward natural causes, Clifton said.