Foul play isn't suspected in the death of a Stanford nurse whose body was found in Fremont on Thursday.
Alameda County Sheriff's Lt. Ray Kelly told KCBS Radio in an email on Friday afternoon that investigators recovered the body of Michael Odell, 27, near the Dumbarton Bridge.
Kelly told the San Francisco Chronicle and the Palo Alto Daily Post that a dive team recovered Odell in a shallow marsh at the nearby Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Odell is believed to have gone there on his own volition, Kelly told the outlets.
Odell was reported missing on Tuesday after leaving in the middle of his overnight shift at Stanford Hospital. Joshua Paredes, Odell's roommate, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the nurse told his supervisor he had to obtain something from his car at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Odell didn't return to their apartment in San Francisco's Castro District.
Paredes told KNTV that investigators obtained footage of Odell leaving the parking lot at that time, and his roommate's phone last pinged Odell's location at 8 a.m. on Tuesday near the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont. There, California Highway Patrol officers found his car near the toll plaza.
After the sheriff's office, highway patrol, a number of agencies and Odell's friends searched for two days, the Alameda County Coroner's Bureau confirmed to KCBS Radio on Thursday night that Odell's body was found in Fremont at 2:15 p.m. that day.
Kelly told the Palo Alto Daily Post an investigation into Odell's cause of death is ongoing.
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