The Knoxville Fire Department boat heads back after recovering a body from Fort Loudoun Lake Thursday September 6, 2012.
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The Knoxville News Sentinel /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
KNOXVILLE — Knoxville police are investigating the discovery of a woman's body found floating in Fort Loudoun Lake across from Sequoyah Hills Park this afternoon.
Authorities were alerted about 1:19 p.m. by a resident who first spotted the body from his back porch on Cherokee Boulevard.
The witness confirmed his suspicions with binoculars and then called E-911, according to Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
