After hours police spent hours searching for a missing Scottsdale hiker, Hannah Moody’s body was located around noon May 22 near the Gateway Trailhead of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.

“It is a heartbreaking development in the extensive search for the missing hiker that started in the evening hours on May 21,” said Officer Aaron Bolin, a police spokesman. “The investigation is in its early stages, but there are no obvious signs of foul play or trauma at this point,."

The 31-year-old Moody, an avid hiker, was reported missing around 7:50 p.m. May 21 by concerned friends who had not heard from her.

Scottsdale officers responded to the trailhead where she was last seen and located her vehicle in the parking lot. Efforts to reach her by phone or ping her cellphone were unsuccessful.

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