On New Year's Day 1986, the body of 28-year-old Deborah Ann Wolfe was found at the bottom of a small irrigation pond outside her isolated cabin near Fort Bragg in North Carolina. She lived there, roughly 4 miles from the Fayetteville city limits, with her dogs. In conflicting reports, divers initially said they located her body inside a barrel. But local officials claim there was no barrel and called her death an accidental drowning.

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https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2019/10/26/body-in-barrel-questions-linger-in-1985-fayetteville-drowning/2439020007/

Unsolved Mysteries (Episode #78); December 1990; Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, Inc.

https://journals.lww.com/amjforensicmedicine/Abstract/1986/12000/Bodies_Found_in_the_Water__An_Investigative.5.aspx