A Southfield woman's remains were finally found 12 weeks after she was reported missing following a bizarre series of events, ending at least part of the mystery about what happened to Adrienne Quintal.
Quintal's family called authorities in Benzie County about 1:30 p.m. Saturday to report finding her body in a flooded area on the family’s property near Honor, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported, roughly 300-400 yards from her family's cabin.
The area had been previously searched intensely with police, dogs and volunteers in the northern Lower Peninsula.
But searchers found nothing. At the time, Adrienne Quintal's family said trail dogs picked up her scent, but cadaver dogs did not during an intensified search through what Benzie County Sheriff Ted Schendel described as rough "swampy area."
The mystery had begun when Quintal, 47, was reported missing in October from a family cabin in Honor, about 20 miles southwest of Traverse City.
The night of Oct. 17, authorities say Quintal called a friend downstate to say she was involved in a shootout with two men at the cabin. She said she'd shot one of the men in the face, and urged her friend to call the police.
Deputies searched the cabin, finding bullet holes fired from the inside out, but no blood, and no sign of Quintal — other than the purse, phone and vehicle she left behind.
"I don't think we've given up," Benzie County Lt. Troy Lamerson told WWJ in a Dec. 4 interview. "We're just trying rule that out as a possibility. We're really not certain what has happened to her; if she was taken against her will, if she's voluntarily missing, or if she had some type of medical issue that caused her to run out into the woods."
How she got into the water remains a question, as authorities not released a statement on her suspected cause of death.