{"id":25756,"date":"2024-09-09T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-found-dead-in-animas-river-is-identified\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:27:07","slug":"woman-found-dead-in-animas-river-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-found-dead-in-animas-river-is-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead in Animas River is identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 57-year-old woman was found dead Saturday in the Animas River near the DoubleTree Hotel in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was identified as Joni Allred, who police said had been living in Durango for about a month. She had been camping near the spot where she was found for at least one night prior to her death, said DPD Cmdr. Jacob Dunlap.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango Police Department received a call from a rafting company that spotted the body at 10:19 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe they saw her in the water and helped pull her to shore before first responders could get there,\u201d Dunlop said.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop was unable to say which rafting company made the call.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said an autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday. Allred\u2019s body did not appear to have any wounds, lacerations or bruising, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop said foul play is not suspected, but the case remains under investigation. Police were unable to say how Allred ended up in the river or give a specific cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how long Allred\u2019s body had been in the river.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-95986386d377996d3d9802f2b9dba934\"><a href=\"mailto:tbrown@durangoherald.com\">tbrown@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafting company spotted body and notified police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[304,950,1065,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animas-river","tag-durango","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79083,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25756\/revisions\/79083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25756"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}