For the past two weeks, Richmond Police have been searching for a missing Richmond man, Randall Collins, who was last seen in the Shockoe Bottom area.
On Wednesday morning, a dive team recovered a body from the nearby Kanawha Canal.
It didn’t help with their case: The medical examiner’s office determined the body wasn’t Collins.
Police say they’re now working to identify the new body.
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