CHIGNIK LAKE, Alaska (AP) — A spokesman for the Alaska Medical Examiner's office said an autopsy could be performed Thursday on the body of a teacher found dead outside Chignik Lake.
Thirty-two-year-old Candice Berner of Perryville was found dead Monday night off a road leading to the community's air strip. She was an itinerant special education teacher.
Alaska State Troopers have not commented on the cause of death but spokeswoman Megan Peters told the Anchorage Daily News the body showed signs of animal predation.
Chignik Lake is a community of about 105 people on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, about 475 miles southwest of Anchorage.
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