Early the next morning, authorities said they found her body near 100 Acre Island, a nature preserve in the middle of the pond. An autopsy later that day determined the 48-year-old woman’s death was a homicide.

A Maine woman who went missing after going paddleboarding on July 2 was murdered, police said. Sunshine Stewart, 48, was reported missing after going paddleboarding on Crawford Pond in Union, which is about 25 miles east of Augusta, on July 2, Maine State Police said. Officials found her dead the following day.