Divers lowered themselves into a hole in the ice at 7:30 pm yesterday and pulled a body from the frozen Matanuska Lake after spending the day setting up an investigative staging area at the scene.

Police believe that the body is that of Samantha Koenig, missing since the evening of February 1st of this year. If in fact it is the body of Koenig, it brings the two month search to a grisley end.

It is unsure at this time what drew the authorities to that spot on the lake or the lake itself, but police say that they have the man in custody that they believe carried out the gruesome act.

Police have not released the identity of the man they have in custody, but it is believed that that person is Israel Keyes. Keyes was extraadited from Texas last month after he was picked up for electronic theft. Authorities there alerted Alaskan enforcement of his detainment.

Keyes pled not guilty to access device fraud in an Anchorage federal court.

Authorities seized Keye’s truck late last month from his home in West Anchorage. They seized and removed the storage shed on the property as well.

The Koenig case began on February 1st, when the video surveillance cameras picked up the scene of her abduction by an armed man as she worked at the Common Grounds Espresso stand in the Alaska Club parking lot on East Tudor Road. Police say that the video tape did not show the identity of the man responsible. That video captured the last known image of Samantha Koenig. Cash from the stand disappeared at the same time as Koenig.

This fateful turn of events will now end the speculation on the part of the police as well as the public that Koenig is still alive. This does not end the investigation into this case however. Police still need to confirm that the body is that of Koenig.

Mary Rook, special investigator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Anchorage Division said in a statement, “While we are now able to reveal more regarding this investigation we must also be cognizant of our joint responsibility to allow the judicial process to move forward,” she said. “As such, there is still much information that we cannot disclose at this time.