Monday, September 8, 2008 - Page updated at 05:40 AM

Car and body found in Seattle's Discovery Park

Officials are waiting for the King County medical examiner's office to determine whether a body found in a wrecked car in Seattle's Discovery Park is a missing Shoreline man.

SEATTLE —

Officials are waiting for the King County medical examiner's office to determine whether a body found in a wrecked car in Seattle's Discovery Park is a missing Shoreline man.

A group walking in the park Sunday evening noticed the car upside down in a ravine. When they saw the body inside they called police.

The car matches the description of a late-model Buick Century driven by Hilmer Jager (JAY'-gur).

The 79-year-old Shoreline man with dementia disappeared Aug. 22 when he drove away from home to visit a friend in the Maltby area of Snohomish County.

Jager worked more than 30 years as a letter-carrier in north Seattle neighborhoods.

(with information from (KOMO-TV, KING-TV, KIRO-TV, KCPQ-TV)

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