The total number of people killed as a result of the eastern Kentucky floods has risen to 45. 60-year-old Vanessa Baker of Breathitt County was officially declared dead on Monday. The Lost Creek resident was washed away by the flood waters last July and her body has yet to be found.
Darrell Herald is an attorney who represents the Baker family and filed for the declaration. Normally, it takes at least seven years from someone to be declared legally dead. Herald said Kentucky has a statute on the books that makes an exception.
