Police identify body found in Portage

PORTAGE – The body of a man found early Wednesday in a truck on a logging road approximately 20 miles west of Route 11 in Portage has been positively identified as that of Lance Bossie, 21, an official from the state medical examiner’s office said Friday.

An autopsy conducted Thursday determined the cause of death was a self-inflicted single gunshot wound to the head. A Taurus .38-caliber revolver was recovered at the scene.

The death is not considered suspicious, according to a statement from the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department.

Bossie, who lived in Fort Kent, had been reported missing at 5 p.m. Jan. 27 after he did not show up for his job with TNT Road Co. at a project in the Ashland area.

According to police, the 21-year-old last was seen on Market Street in Fort Kent at approximately 6:30 a.m. Jan. 26. He was heading south in a 2003 Maroon Ford F-350 truck.

Bossie had not contacted anyone since he last was seen, and police had not recorded any activity on his credit or debit cards.

Investigators speculated that it was Bossie’s body immediately after a grader operator reported finding Bossie’s pickup on a logging road off Rocky Brook Road west of Portage.

Deputy Sheriff Larry Goff and Sgt. Forrest Dudley of the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department led the investigation.

An obituary for Bossie that appeared in Friday’s Bangor Daily News said a funeral service was scheduled to be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Louis Catholic Church.

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