A Sharon woman found dead in the woods off Swamp Road in late October is likely the victim of a hiking accident.
Police began investigating Oct. 25 after a Sharon landlord requested a welfare check on their tenant, Diana Micchiche, 58, who hadn’t been seen or heard from in several days. Peterborough Police checked the residence and surroundings but did not find Micchiche and scheduled a search with Fish and Game for the following day. However, later that day, a New Ipswich deer hunter walking on the David Wilson Land off Swamp Road found a body in the woods and reported it to police.
Peterborough Police Chief Scott Guinard said Tuesday that he and another officer hiked about 2,000 feet into the woods and located Micchiche’s body lying in a small pool of water.
Guinard said the state medical examiner conducted an autopsy and determined that Micchiche’s cause of death was environmental hypothermia. There were no signs of foul play, Guinard said, and that she had “potentially” experienced a hiking accident which left her incapacitated and out in the cold.