News release Curry Co. Sheriff’s Office. On Friday April 29, 2016 at about 2:45pm, the Curry County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a Gold Beach resident reporting that while they were operating their boat near Cole Riffle on the Rogue River, they located the body of a white male adult alongside the river that was partially submerged between two rocks. At that time there had been no reports of missing persons fitting the description given by the caller. Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the area and launched their marine boat at the Quosanta Creek boat ramp which is about 14 miles upriver from Gold Beach. Approximately two river miles upriver from the Quosanta Creek boat ramp, deputies located the fully clothed body of a white male adult near Cole Riffle and transported him back down river to the Quosanta Creek boat ramp. From there the deceased person was transported back to Gold Beach and released to Redwood Memorial from Brookings. There was no evidence or indication at the time for the cause of death other than possible drowning. Subsequent investigation into the death determined the deceased person was thirty-four year old Thomas Glenn Moore of Gold Beach, Or. Ashley Rasmussen who is Moore’s significant other was contacted later that evening and said she and Thomas Moore had been camping with their two children and a friend Christopher Haynes from Chiloquin, Or., the night before at a spot near Cole Riffle. Rasmussen said at some point around 2:00am, Moore had walked away from their camp spot in the dark and did not come back. Rasmussen stated the following morning after daylight they looked for Moore around camp and then drove up and down the Agness Road and had been searching all day. The next of kin as well as the Curry County District Attorney have been notified and the Curry County Medical Examiner has scheduled an autopsy to help determine the cause of death. The Curry County Sheriff’s Office is continuing the investigation. In November 2015, after taking a missing person report from Ashley Rasmussen, the Curry County Sheriff’s Office had listed Thomas Moore as a missing person through the National Data Base and he was found to be ok in the Coos Bay area the next day after he was reported missing.
