The body discovered in an Indiana lake on Sunday was confirmed to be of Teleka Patrick, a Michigan medical resident who went missing in December, the Associated Press reported.
Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller made the announcement in a news conference on Wednesday after an autopsy was performed a day earlier.
Around 7 a.m. Sunday, a fisherman called police after spotting something floating in Lake Charles, located in Porter, Indiana. Once authorities arrived at the scene, they pulled a female body dressed in dark clothes out of the water.
Though authorities had tried to search the lake before, the amount of ice made the investigation difficult.
Porter County Coroner Chuck Harris said the body showed "no obvious external signs of trauma" but that, due to decomposition, "it's hard to tell for sure."
Patrick, 30, was a first-year medical resident in psychiatry at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was last seen on Dec. 5 in surveillance footage from Radisson Hotel -- located just minutes from her home.
On the same night she went missing, police found her car in a ditch about 100 miles away. Her wallet was inside, but the keys were missing. After co-workers reported on Dec. 6 that she hadn't shown up to work, police found Patrick's cell phone and purse at the hospital.
Later in December, investigators also found videos on YouTube featuring Patrick, seen talking and singing romantically to an unidentified person.
