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ME releases autopsy for Chase Morland

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office released the autopsy results for one of the two Arkansas duck hunters who disappeared during wintry weather last month.

Fayetteville, Arkansas, television station KHOG reports in a report released Tuesday, the medical examiner's office said 22-year-old Chase Morland accidentally drowned when his boat capsized in Kaw Lake in northern Oklahoma.

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Morland's body was found December 28 after he and his friend, Craig Strickland, went missing while hunting during a winter storm.

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