{"id":76459,"date":"2021-10-11T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/body-confirmed-to-be-that-of-missing-man\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:02:27","slug":"body-confirmed-to-be-that-of-missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/body-confirmed-to-be-that-of-missing-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Body confirmed to be that of missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><ins>An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Hannah Clayton as Joseph Clayton&rsquo;s sister. She is his daughter-in-law. <\/ins><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Juneau Police Department confirmed Tuesday that a body found near the Auke Bay ferry terminal last week was that of a man reported missing in August.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Joseph Michael Clayton, 48, has been identified by the Alaska Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office after being discovered by a state employee surveying for storm damage on Oct. 5, said Lt. Krag Campbell in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you for everybody&rsquo;s efforts,&rdquo; said Clayton&rsquo;s daughter-in-law Hannah Clayton in a phone interview. &ldquo;A lot of people came out to look and we want to thank the city for their support.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clayton was reported missing on Aug. 21 after not returning from a hike near Auke Lake, Campbell said in a news release. Alaska State Troopers and Southeast Alaska Dogs Organized for Ground Search mounted a search, and while some signs of Clayton&rsquo;s movement through the area were discovered, he was not located. The active search was called off on Aug. 24, and became a missing persons case.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton&rsquo;s body was located approximately 100 feet from Glacier Highway up a steep embankment, according to Campbell.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body was found near the Auke Bay ferry terminal.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":76460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[579,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-76459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-death","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76459"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=76459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}