Schmidt
GREENPORT – The body of a woman found in a wooded area off Old
Post Road in the Town of Kinderhook in the early morning hours of Saturday,
September 10 has been identified as 21-year-old Halle Schmidt.
She had been reported missing to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office
on September 4.
She was identified by matching clothing that she was last seen wearing,
tattoos on her body, and information obtained through the investigation,
police said.
Schmidt was last seen on foot in the area of Route 66 and Route 23B in
the Town of Greenport during the early morning hours of Saturday, September
3.
Sheriff’s investigators said the case remains an active criminal
investigation and is considered a homicide as are all cases involving
unsolved deaths unless they are proven otherwise.
