Lang
4/22/22
A Quad Cites man faces a vehicular homicide charge after a body was found inside a car submerged in the Mississippi River in Muscatine County.
According to a news release from the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office, the county’s joint communications center, or MUSCOM, received a call just after 11:00 Thursday night reporting a disturbance at the Fairport Recreation Area on Highway 22. Investigators could not locate the issue.
Just after midnight Friday, a woman called MUSCOM to report a male missing from the same area. Arriving officers determined the two calls were related.
Just before 12:30am, a Montpelier resident reported to MUSCOM that a male…later identified as 36-year-old Joshua Peters of Davenport…had shown up at her door.
Deputies learned that Peters had been driving a car with the missing male inside. Peters said there had been a crash, and he gave investigators the car’s current location.
Muscatine County Search and Rescue located the vehicle submerged in the Mississippi River just south of the boat ramp at Clark’s Ferry Recreation Area. The vehicle was recovered, and a deceased adult male was found inside.
Peters was arrested and charged with Vehicular Homicide, Leaving the Scene of an Accident Involving Death or Injury, 1st Degree Theft and Driving While Barred. If convicted on all charges, he faces a maximum of over 40 years in prison.