Two bodies were pulled from the Ohio River in Kentucky within a 14-hour period, between Friday night and Saturday morning, baffling police.

The first of the two bodies was discovered by a boater near the Purple People Bridge. According to An investigation was launched immediately after the initial report was released by Newsweek, and just 14 hours later, police returned to the Ohio River near the Brent Spence Bridge after another body was pulled from the river.

At the time of writing, the identity of the person who died is unknown. Two different law enforcement agencies are investigating the death and are working closely together.

“Nothing has been ruled out,” Newport police Capt. Kevin Drohan said in a statement. “We are still investigating all angles. We are treating this as much as a homicide and will begin our investigation as such.”

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“We're pretty sure they were at the bottom of the river. What was happening along the river caused the current and turbulence of the boat to bring them to the surface,” said Sergeant Donnie Schuckman with Boone County Water Rescue.

This isn't the only body to have been pulled under suspicious circumstances from America's rivers in the past few years. (Related: Report: New York serial killer suspect in police custody)

Concerns about a serial killer targeting military-age men leaving bars, drugging them and dumping their bodies in bodies of water have plagued Chicago and Austin. said According to the Daily Mail, he believes he was drugged and pushed 25 feet off a bridge by an Austin serial killer known as the “Rainy Street Ripper,” and Austin police said Saturday they were no longer searching for the killer. According to into the San Antonio Current. (Related article: 'He will kill again. He loves it': Serial killer receives new sentence)

At least 12 bodies have been recovered from Austin's Lady Bird Lake and the Colorado River since 2022. An additional 16 bodies have been found in the Chicago River and Lake Michigan during the same period.