After a week-long investigation that culminated with a search party combing through Fargo, North Dakota, the body of a woman who was pregnant when she went missing the weekend before last, was recovered by a group of kayakers in the Red River on Sunday, August 27. The gruesome discovery came days after her infant was found alive in the apartment of a neighboring couple.

Savanna Greywind, 22, went missing on Saturday, the 19th. She had told her mother, with whom she lived, that she was going to try on a dress her neighbor Brooke Crews, 38, was sewing. After realizing she had been gone for some time, Greywind’s little brother was sent upstairs to check on her, but he only reported back that he heard the sound of a sewing machine running. Greywind’s father would eventually go back, but was met at the door by Crews, who told her that Greywind would be staying a bit longer. Hours later Greywood’s mother would knock on Crews’ door but was at that point told that her daughter had already left and been gone for some time.

It took authorities five days of searching for clues to head back to Crews’ apartment, where a newborn child was found in the care of Crews and her boyfriend William Hoehn, 32. They were arrested for suspicion of kidnapping and from that point on the case began to unravel. Crews admitted that the baby was Greywind’s but initially said that Greywind had given the child to her. Crews’ boyfriend’s story took the investigation down a different path, however, as he claimed to have gotten home to find bloody items, which he’d help Crews dispose of. He also told investigators that she had presented the child to him by stating, “this is our baby.”

A search crew comprised of hundreds of volunteers used leads from the investigation to search the area east of Harwood, and are reported to have found “suspicious items” that Police Chief David Todd said had tipped them off to a possible crime scene being near, but they couldn’t locate Greywind’s body. It wasn’t until around 5:45 p.m. on Sunday that the kayakers caught sight of a large mass of plastic wrapping that they suspected could have comprised a body, that the discovery was made. Sure enough, there was a woman in the plastic, and at 9:20 p.m. she had been identified as Savanna Greywind.

An autopsy is being done on the body in order to get more clues into how Crews and Hoehn managed to obtain the child, seeing how she was still 8-months pregnant when Greywind went missing. Crews eventually told authorities that she had taught Greywind how to self-induce the child’s labor, but police have not ruled out that she may have actually cut the baby out of Greywind

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