Month: December 2015

By Ray Lamont, Gloucester Daily Times Staff Writer

The body of the Rockport woman missing since late Friday night off Rocky Neck was found by her two sons and recovered by Gloucester police and fire crews from beneath the pier of the Americold building off East Main Street.

Susan Nilsson, 56, had been the subject of a multi-pronged search focused on the waters of Smith Cove and off Rocky Neck since Saturday afternoon, after she failed to show up for work as manager of the Sea Bags shop in Rockport. The search was focused there after Gloucester police had located some personal items belonging to Nilsson on a pier and in the water at the Gloucester Marine Railways complex.

Today, her sons, Sten and Bjorn Nilsson, both of whom now live together in Colorado,- made the grim discovery of their mother’s body shortly after noon while they were searching on their own along and beneath the many shoreline docks and piers in East Gloucester. The discovery came almost directly across Smith Cove from the railways shipyard.

For the complete story, read the Gloucester Daily Times article here.