Mequon – Weeks after his partially burned body was found in a New Mexico ditch, a memorial service for 22-year-old Michael J. Mowers will be held today in Mequon with his family, and with investigators knowing little more now about the University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s death than they did then.
Mowers’ body was discovered Nov. 21 in a culvert near a construction site in Las Cruces, N.M., by a woman walking her dog. But it took police until Dec. 7 to identify the body, using a national employment fingerprint database.