State police have identified a body found earlier this month near Interstate 95 in New London as a Middletown man who has been missing for a year.
David Godwin Sr., 65, of Middletown, was last seen Oct. 13, 2013 at the Passport Inn on Main Street in Middletown. State police are treating the discovery of his body as a suspicious death at this time, state police said. Lt. J. Paul Vance, state police spokesman, said that is standard protocol until investigators can determine what caused his death.
In a Nov. 5, 2013 news release, police said that "it is believed that Mr. Godwin then traveled by train from Old Saybrook, CT to Penn Station in New York City" and arrived there on Oct. 14, 2013" and that "the last communication anyone had with Mr. Godwin was on October 16, 2013."
Police said in that release that Godwin Sr. was likely "suffering from memory loss."
