The Iowa Department of Public Safety has not confirmed that the remains are those of David Schultz, 53, of Lake View. However, in a statement released Wednesday evening the department confirmed that the body was found near where his semi-trailer was found on Nov. 21, 2023.

Schultz was reported missing on that date after he did not deliver a truckload of pigs to a buying station near Sac City as planned.

He left Lake View on the night of Nov. 20, 2023, to pick up the pigs at a location near Eagle Grove. He left that site at 10:50 p.m. Nov. 20.

Security camera images showed Schultz was at the Marker 126 travel center on U.S. Highway 20 east of Fort Dodge at 11:15 p.m. Nov. 20.

At about 3 p.m. Nov. 21, his truck was found near Union Avenue and 190th Street. Data from his phone indicated that the truck had been there since 12:40 a.m. that day.

A massive search for Schultz was launched, but it was unsuccessful.

At 2 p,m. Wednesday, the Sac County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a man reporting that he had found a body in his field. That field is along Union Avenue between 190th and 200th streets.

The body was taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny for an autopsy.