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(KSL News) An Ogden school teacher may know the identity of a body found frozen in the Sierra Nevadas.
A group of climbers found the body of a World War II serviceman on a glacier last month.
Carol Benson, of Ogden, says that man may have been her uncle, John Melvin Mortenson. Mortenson was one of four people aboard an AT7 navigational plane that vanished in 1942.
Five years later, Mortenson's plane was found, in the same area where the frozen body was discovered. Authorities never found Mortenson's body.
Benson says the physical description of the man found frozen matches that of her uncle. Crews in Hawaii are working to identify the body.
