u/Infamous-Duck-2157

In Moss Point, Mississippi in 1982, a truck driver called police and reported a woman's body wearing a blue plaid shirt in the Escatawpa River. Instead, police found two other bodies: Alisha Heinrich, 18 months old, and Gary Simpson (considered unrelated to Heinrich's case). But police never found the woman described by the truck driver and the description of the clothes does not match what Gary or Alisha were wearing.

Alisha's mother Gwendolyn Clemons is still missing. Before her body was discovered, a woman carrying a child was "causing a disturbance" on the bridge, but I can't find any description of the woman or what she was wearing, or any further details about the woman the truck driver saw in the river, or what Gwendolyn may have been wearing when she disappeared (the most recent sighting of her was 2 days before Alisha's body was discovered, and this is only a possible sighting).

It makes me wonder if there really was a woman's body in the river, and whether that woman was Gwendolyn. Has anyone else been able to find any further details on this woman? Do you think this was likely Gwendolyn, and if so, what happened to her in the span between the trucker called police and the police arriving on the scene?

Alisha's Unidentified Wiki: https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Alisha_Heinrich

Gwendolyn's IMP Wiki: https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Gwendolyn_Clemons

Gwendolyn's NamUs page: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/73713