Police find body of missing 23-year-old ballerina in lake after her car was abandoned on a boat ramp

23-year-old Raffaella Maria Stroik had gone missing on Monday morning, with the search for her coming to an end after her body was discovered in a lake.
UPDATED NOV 15, 2018

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has called off the search for a missing St. Louis ballerina after her body was found on Wednesday morning inside the Mark Twain Lake located in Ralls County and Missouri and Monroe County, Missouri. A park ranger first came across 23-year-old Raffaella Maria Stroik's vehicle abandoned on a boat ramp parking lot off Highway 107 in Mark Twain State Park on November 12. The car was more than two hours away from her last seen location — she was last spotted at around 10:30 a.m. the same day at a Whole Foods Market at 1160 Town and Country Crossing Drive, Town and Country.

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