ID of body found in Frisco awaiting autopsy

| July 14, 2012

Jackenheimer's family, friends arriving Thursday.

Authorities might not know until late Monday or Tuesday if a body found off a cul-de-sac in Frisco was that of an Ohio woman missing since July 4.

In a statement, the Dare County Sheriff’s Office said investigators found the body after receiving a call about 4:30 p.m. Saturday. The discovery comes after a weeklong search on Hatteras Island for Lynn Jackenheimer was suspended Friday.

Irene Nolan of the Island Free Press reported that the body was found in a bag in the Village at Salt Creek, a secluded subdivision on the soundside of Hatteras Island between Frisco Rod and Gun and the Quarterdeck Restaurant.

Authorities have been searching for Lynn Jackenheimer, 33, of Ashland, Ohio. She disappeared sometime around July 4 while she and her former boyfriend, Nate Summerfield, were vacationing with her two children in Salvo, about a half hour north of the area where the body was found.

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The Free Press reported Sunday that Dare County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. W. Charles Nieman said the office was still waiting for the results of an autopsy to be performed.

Lynn Jackenheimer.

Nieman said the body is in Greenville, N.C., for the autopsy and the Sheriff’s office didn’t plan to release any more information until there is an identification of the corpse, according to the Free Press.

Currently, he said, the autopsy is planned for late Monday or early Tuesday, but Sheriff Doug Doughtie is hoping he can get that schedule accelerated.

The Sheriff’s Office suspended its search Friday on Hatteras Island due to weather conditions.

But nine of Lynn Jackenheimer’s acquaintances, including her step-father, sister and brother, said they would not give up and would continue their own search.

After members of several law enforcement agencies spent much of Thursday morning looking around the Hatteras Colony neighborhood of Salvo, Jackenheimer’s family and friends joined officers to scour the Salvo Day Use Area.

Plans were made to investigate more areas Friday, including the use boats of to look at soundside shoreline areas of northern Hatteras Island. However, the threat of thunderstorms scrapped all plans for searching by law enforcement.

A vacation rental company is providing Jackenheimer’s family and friends with free housing on Hatteras Island for as long as they wish to stay.

Jackenheimer, who was last heard from by telephone in the early morning hours July 4.
Nate Summerfield, 27, who was staying during the week of Independence Day at a rental on Cutlass Lane with Jackenheimer, their 3-year-old son, and her 13-year-old daughter, has not been seen since July 8 in Ohio when he dropped off the children with their grandparents.

Summerfield allegedly told a family member he had strangled Jackenheimer and buried her in North Carolina, which led Summerfield’s brother to call police.

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  • katy says:

    SO VERY SAD , I STILL HAD HOPE SHE MIGHT BE ALIVE.

    • on July 14, 2012 @ 9:23 pm

  • CB says:

    How heartbreaking. It is good, however, that her family and friends are here and will not have to go through years of not knowing. Prayers for her loved ones.

    • on July 14, 2012 @ 9:27 pm

  • Carol says:

    Hope

    • on July 14, 2012 @ 9:32 pm

  • FAITH says:

    Hope & prayers that it is NOT her. God bless Lynn & her family and friends…today and everyday!

    • on July 14, 2012 @ 10:06 pm

  • Tammy says:

    This is so sad, these children have to live without their beautiful mother, may the guy get punished to the fullest as nothing is worth taking someone’s life, these 2 kids have to live without her because of his sick a$$!

    • on July 15, 2012 @ 1:53 am

  • cheri says:

    Lynn was one of the neatest ladies I have ever known. She was a pleasure to be around with such a zest for.life . She had such a big heart and loved doing special things for people to make them happy. As a mother there was no better than Lynn. So sad that her children will have to go on without her. What a selfish act with no regard to those 2 beautiful kids. Lynn I am so glad that I had a chance to know you. You will be so missed.

    • on July 15, 2012 @ 2:08 am

  • Cherub says:

    Yeah Faith, let’s hope it’s someone else’s dead body that has been found discarded in a salt marsh. Or maybe it was merely a pet orangutan in a bag that someone decided to bury in Fricso.

    • on July 15, 2012 @ 6:08 am

  • Beached Bum says:

    @Faith so you are hoping they found the body of someone else that has not been reported missing? The ex-boyfriend already told his brother that he killed Lynn and buried her. I hope it is her so that the family has closure.

    • on July 15, 2012 @ 6:49 am

  • Maggie says:

    Why don’t we all just take a moment and pray for whoever this is and their family. It is a tragedy, maybe for one family, maybe more depending on who this is. Think about what you can do to help the grieving families, rather than cutting each other down here.

    • on July 15, 2012 @ 12:37 pm

  • Outerbanxer says:

    I’m glad the family got some closure…I just hope Dare County charges him with 1ST degree, and premeditated at that…

    • on July 15, 2012 @ 5:27 pm

  • Native son says:

    The Village at Salt Creek subdivision.Hoping it’s not Lynn but….Now lets catch Nate and let the law run it’s course,with extreme predjudice!

    • on July 16, 2012 @ 8:57 am

  • RnR says:

    This whole thing is very tragic. I would like to say kudos to the rental company providing free lodging to the family. Its that type of hospitality the world needs. Thank you for that. I hope that this body is not her and she is still alive, although my head tells me that its her. Very very sad.

    • on July 16, 2012 @ 10:26 am

  • Sherry Barnette says:

    So So Sorry. Praying for her , her children and all her family and friends

    • on July 16, 2012 @ 12:14 pm

  • Bobbie says:

    I agree with Maggie. We should keep good thoughts and pray for whoever this body may be. I met some of Lynn’s family & friends early on Sat. at Hotline Too! in Nags Head. They came in to give us posters to display. I hugged her brother and friend and told them I would keep them in my prayers and thoughts. I hope they all have peace soon.

    • on July 16, 2012 @ 1:52 pm

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